The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice

Fitzjames had passed the winter of 1871-2 in Calcutta with Henry Cunningham; his wife having returned to England in November. He followed her in the spring, sailing from Bombay...

The Commission upon the Criminal Code occupied Fitzjames for some time after his appointment to a judgeship. His first appearance in his new capacity was in April 1879 at the Ce...

I have traced at some length the early development of my brother's mind and character. Henceforward I shall have to describe rather the manifestation than the modification of hi...

During the first half of the eighteenth century a James Stephen, the first of the family of whom I have any knowledge, was tenant of a small farm in Aberdeenshire, on the border...

In the beginning of 1829 my father settled in a house at Kensington Gore--now 42 Hyde Park Gate. There his second son, James Fitzjames, was born on March 3, 1829. James was the...

Fitzjames reached Calcutta upon December 12, 1869. Henry Cunningham had made the long journey from Lahore to pay him a few days' visit. The whole time was devoted to an outpour...

I. INTRODUCTORY 131 II. FIRST YEARS AT THE BAR 136 III. THE 'SATURDAY REVIEW' 148 IV. EDUCATION COMMISSION AND RECORDERSHIP 165 V. PROGRESS AT THE BAR 173 VI. 'ESSAYS BY A BARRI...

I. FIRST OCCUPATIONS IN ENGLAND 298 II. 'LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY' 306 III. DUNDEE ELECTION 340 IV. CODIFICATION IN ENGLAND 351 V. THE METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY 358 VI. THE CRIM...

PAGE I. JAMES STEPHEN, WRITER ON IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT 1 II. JAMES STEPHEN, MASTER IN CHANCERY 8 III. MASTER STEPHEN'S CHILDREN 25 IV. THE VENNS 33 V. JAMES STEPHEN, COLONIAL UN...