STEPHENS, H. Morse

STEPHENS, Henry Morse. Edinburgh 3.10.1857 — Berkeley 16.4.1919. British Historian in the U.S.A. Professor in Berkeley. Son of John Edward Stephens of Indian army and Emma Morris. Educated from 1871 at Haileybury College, studies from 1877 at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1880, M.A. 1892). Lecturer in Indian History at Cambridge, 1892-94. Emigrated to the U.S.A., from 1894 Professor of Modern European and English History at Cornell University. From 1902 Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley, 1918-19 also Dean of College of Arts and Sciences. Litt.D. 1909 Harvard. Married, but left his mentally unstable wife in the U.K.

Publications: Albuquerque. 222 p. Rulers of India Series. Oxford 1892.

– Much on Western history.

Sources: Cornell Alumni News 21:29, 1919, 339; prabook.com; Wikipedia with photo.

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