3. Guy³ Stephenson (Sir Augustus Frederick William Keppel², Henry Frederick¹) was born 5/11/1865. Guy died 17/10/1930 in London, at 64 years of age.

He married Gwendolen Talbot 1905. Gwendolen was born c1877. Gwendolen was the daughter of John Gilbert Talbot and Meriel Sarah Lyttelton. Gwendolen died 26/07/1960 at 83 years of age.

His funeral was held in Nunton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 20/10/1930. Guy was memorialized 21/10/1930 in All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, London. From The Times, October 18, 1930

Sir Guy Stephenson, Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, died in London last night, at the age of 65. He had been ill since the beginning of September, when he underwent an operation, and had since made a most gallant fight for recovery.

Stephenson was a criminal lawyer of wide knowledge and long experience, and in him the country loses a public servant of tried ability and conscientious industry whose work was naturally known only to few. Personally, he was one of the kindest of men, and he will be deeply regretted in a very wide circle.

The eldest son of the late Sir Augustus Keppel Stephenson, K.C., who was Solicitor to the Treasury and Director of Public Prosecutions when the two offices were held together, he was born in 1865, and obtained an entrance scholarship at Harrow, where he was in Mr. A. G. Watson's house. He was in the Shooting VIII. in 1884, and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1887. He was called to the Inner Temple in 1888, and obtained an excellent practice at the Central Criminal Court and on the South-Eastern Circuit. He was appointed counsel to the Treasury at the North London Sessions in 1901, and Assistant Solicitor to the Treasury in 1905.

Three years later he was made Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, his chief being the late Sir Charles Mathews, in whose chambers he had spent his early years at the Bar. He had already learnt from Mathews the art of mastering all the details of a case by arranging them in chronological order, and this proved of great value to him in the public service. He was created C.B. in 1913 and was knighted in 1923. Sir Guy was joint editor of the 22nd and 23rd editions of Archbold's Criminal Pleading. He was an old Volunteer, who had served in the 2nd V.B., The Wiltshire Regiment, and was fond of shooting, fishing, and golf. For many years he was a much appreciated contributor to the social life of the Bar, for he possessed remarkable skill in whistling to his own piano accompaniments. He married, in 1905, Gwendolen, daughter of the late Right Hon. J. G. Talbot, and had four sons and one daughter.

Guy Stephenson and Gwendolen Talbot had the following children:

+ 8 i. A. William⁴ Stephenson (living status unknown).

9 ii. John F. E. Stephenson (living status unknown).

10 iii. Paul Stephenson (living status unknown).

11 iv. Jane Stephenson (living status unknown).

12 v. Henry James Stephenson was born c1922. Henry died 17/12/1943 at 21 years of age. His funeral was held in Markbeech Church, 20/12/1943. From The Times, December 18, 1943

On Dec. 17, 1943, after a short illness, Flight Lieutenant Henry Janes Stephenson, youngest son of the late Sir Guy Stephenson, C.B., and Lady Stephenson, aged 22. Funeral Markbeech Church 1.15 Monday Dec. 20. Train leaves Victoria 11.8, Cowden Station.

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