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See also:STEPNEY, See also:GEORGE (1663-1707) , See also:English poet and diplomatist, son of George Stepney, See also:groom of the chamber to See also:Charles II., was See also:born at See also:Westminster in 1663. He was admitted on the See also:foundation of Westminster School in 1676, and in 1682 became a See also:scholar of Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, becoming a See also:fellow of his college in 1687. Through his friend Charles See also:Montagu, after-wards See also:earl of See also:Halifax, he entered the See also:diplomatic service, and in 1692 was sent as See also:envoy to See also:Brandenburg. He represented See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III. at various other See also:German courts, and in 1702 was sent to See also:Vienna, where he had already acted as envoy in 1693. In 1705 See also:Prince See also:Eugene desired his withdrawal on the ground of his alleged partiality to the Hungarian insurgents, but the demand was taken back at the See also:request of See also:Marlborough, who had See also:great confidence in Stepney. He was, nevertheless, removed ~n 1706 to the See also:Hague. In the next See also:year he returned to See also:England in the See also:hope of recovering from a severe illness, but died in See also:Chelsea, See also:London, on the 15th of See also:September 1707, and was buried in Westminster See also:Abbey. Stepney had a very full and accurate knowledge of German affairs, and was an excellent See also:letter-writer. Among his correspondents was See also:Baron See also:Leibnitz, with whom he was on the friendliest terms. Much of his See also:official and other See also:correspondence is preserved in the letters and papers of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Ellis (Brit. 14Ius. Add. See also:MSS. 28875-28947), See also:purchased from the earl of See also:Macclesfield in 1872, and others are available in the See also:record See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. He contributed a version of the eighth See also:satire of See also:Juvenal to the See also:translation (1693) of the satires " by Mr See also:Dryden and several other eminent hands." Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, who included him in his Lives of the Poets, called him a " very licentious translator," and remarked that he did not " recompense his neglect of the author by beauties of his own."
His poems appear in See also:Chalmers's English Poets, vol. viii., and other collections of the See also:kind. Some of his correspondence is printed by J. M. See also:Kemble in See also:State Papers and Correspondence . from the Revolution to the See also:Accession of the See also:House of See also:Hanover (1857). A See also:list of the Macclesfield letters is to be found in the See also:Report of the
Hist. MSS. See also:Commission, No. i., app. pp. 34-40. For an See also:account of Stepney's See also:family and circumstances, see R. See also:Harrison, Some Notices of the Stepney Family (187o), pp. 22-28.
End of Article: STEPNEY, GEORGE (1663-1707)
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