De­cem­ber 22, 1839, Red­barns, New­castle up­on Tyne, Eng­land.

Ju­ly 6, 1912.

Ci­ty of Lon­don cem­e­te­ry, Il­ford.

Stephenson was ed­u­cat­ed at Wes­ley Col­lege, Shef­field, and sub­se­quent­ly grad­u­at­ed at the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Lon­don. In 1860, he en­tered the Wes­ley­an min­is­try, and served in Nor­wich, Man­ches­ter, Bol­ton and Lon­don. He found­ed the Child­ren’s Home at Num­ber 8 Church Street, near Wa­ter­loo Sta­tion in Lon­don, on Ju­ly 9, 1869. The home moved to larg­er prem­is­es at Bon­ner Road, Bethvnal Green, in 1871 and was then able to ac­com­mo­date girls as well as boys. In 1907, the or­gan­iz­a­tion be­came known as the Na­tion­al Child­ren’s Home and Or­phan­age, re­flect­ing its na­tion­wide growth and ex­pan­sion. Ste­phen­son re­tired as Prin­ci­pal in 1900, re­tir­ing fully in 1907.

• Julian, pp. 1092-3

1. Fading Like a Life­time Ends Ano­ther Day
2. O Fa­ther, Whose Spon­tan­e­ous Love
3. Onward, o’er Time’s Great Ocean
4. Sweetly Dawns the Sab­bath Morn­ing
5. This Is the Glor­ious Gos­pel Word