Montagu Stephen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian solicitor (1827-1872)
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Place of Birth: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
About Montagu Stephen
- Montagu Consett Stephen (28 April 1827 – 19 May 1872) was an Australian politician. The Stephen family is a prominent legal dynasty in Australia.
- Montagu was born in Hobart, the son of Alfred Stephen, who would later become Lieutenant-Governor of NSW and Chief Justice of NSW, and Virginia Consett.
- In 1843 he travelled to Tonbridge in England to complete his education, returning to Van Diemen's Land in 1844 and becoming a solicitor's clerk.
- Admitted as a solicitor in 1849, he practised alone and in partnership until 1864.
- On 25 May 1853 he married Emily Clara Jennings Smith.
- Having moved to New South Wales, he worked as solicitor to the Australian Mutual Provident Society and was a Woollahra alderman and mayor.
- He also held a number of pastoral runs in partnership in Queensland.
- In 1869 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury, but he resigned in 1870.
- Stephen died in London in 1872.
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