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Authorised form of nameStepney; George (1663 - 1707); poet and diplomat
Dates1663 - 1707
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWestminster, London, England
Date of birth1663
Place of deathParadise Row, Chelsea, London, England
Date of death15 September 1707
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Westminster Abbey, London, England
OccupationPoet; Diplomat
ActivityEducation:
Westminster School; Trinity College, Cambridge; BA (1686), MA (1689)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity (1689); Secretary to Sir Peter Wyche (FRS 1663) at Hamburg and to James Johnson at Berlin; Envoy to Brandenburg (1695, 1698), to Frankfurt (1697), to Vienna (1702-1705) and to The Hague (1707); friend of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (FRS 1695); Commissioner of Trade (1697-1707); died of 'the bloody flux'.
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/11/1697
RelationshipsParents: George Stepney, Groom of the Chamber to Charles II, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Bernard Whetstone, Kt, of Woodford, Essex
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SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn
CodeNA4972
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EL/S2/16Letter, from Mr [George] Stepney [to the Royal Society]nd
IM/004392Stepney, Georgend
LBO/12/31Copy letter from Hans Sloane to George Stepneynd
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