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Sir James Stephen 1789-1859, British colonial administrator; father of Leslie and James Fitzjames Stephen. He served (1825-35) as permanent counsel to the colonial office and Board of Trade and drafted the bill (1833) for the abolition of the slave trade. As assistant undersecretary (1834-36) and undersecretary (1836-47) for the colonies, he was the effective director of British colonial policy. He promoted the extension of self-government to the colonies and rejected the "systematic colonization" schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefield , fearing oppression of the native populations.

Bibliography: See study by Paul Knaplund (1953).

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Stephen, Sir James (1789–1859), father of Sir J. F. Stephen and Sir L. Stephen, and professor of modern history at Cambridge (1849–59). He is remembered as author of Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography (1849) and Lectures on the History of France (1851).

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