Augustus Keppel Stephenson

Sir Augustus Frederick William Keppel Stephenson, (18 October 1827 in London – 26 September 1904) was a Treasury Solicitor and the second person to hold the office of Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales. Early life and family Stephenson was born in London on 18 October 1827, the eldest child of Henry Frederick Stephenson, MP, and Lady Mary Keppel. His mother was one of eleven children born to William Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle. His father, Henry Frederick Stephenson, was the illegitimate son of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. Henry Frederick Stephenson was a barrister-at-law and served as M.P. for Westbury (1831–49). His younger brother, Admiral Sir Henry Frederick Stephenson, was a Royal Navy officer, courtier and Arctic explorer. Education Stephenson was educated privately, and later attended Caius College, Cambridge, taking his MA in 1819. He was called to the Bar as barrister-at-law of Lincoln's Inn in 1852.