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STEPNEY, GEORGE (1663-1707) , English poet and diplomatist, son of George Stepney, groom of the chamber to Charles II., was born at Westminster in 1663. He was admitted on the foundation of Westminster School in 1676, and in 1682 became a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge , becoming a fellow of his college in 1687. Through his friend Charles Montagu, after-wards earl
Halifax
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Eugene
letter -writer. Among his correspondents was Baron Leibnitz, with whom he was on the friendliest terms. Much of his official and other correspondence is preserved in the letters and papers of Sir John Ellis (Brit. 14Ius. Add. MSS. 28875-28947), purchased from the earl
Macclesfield in 1872, and others are available in the record office. He contributed a version of the eighth satire of Juvenal to the translation (1693) of the satires " by Mr Dryden and several other eminent hands." Dr 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 Chalmers's English Poets, vol. viii., and other collections of the kind. Some of his correspondence is printed by J. M. Kemble in State Papers and Correspondence . from the Revolution to the Accession of the House
list
Macclesfield letters is to be found in the Report of theHist. MSS. Commission, No. i., app. pp. 34-40. For an account of Stepney's family and circumstances, see R. Harrison, Some Notices of the Stepney Family (187o), pp. 22-28. End of Article: STEPNEY, GEORGE (1663-1707) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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