Alexander Condie Stephen
Chivalric Order Member
1850 – 1908
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Who was Alexander Condie Stephen?
Sir Alexander Condie Stephen, KCMG, KCVO, CB was a British diplomat and translator from Russian and Persian.
He was the first translator of Lermontov's long poem "The Demon" into English, in 1875. He translated "Fairy Tales of a Parrot" from Persian in 1880.
He was knighted KCVO on 24 August 1900, for being HM minister resident in Dresden and Coburg. He was Groom in Waiting to King Edward VII from 1901.
He was caricatured in a Vanity Fair "Spy" print on 18 December 1902, as "Russian, Persian and Turkish".
Stephen is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
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- Born
- Jul 20, 1850
- Employment
- Assistant commissioner, Afghan Boundary Commission
(1884 - 1885/05)
- Assistant commissioner, Afghan Boundary Commission
- Died
- May 10, 1908
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on July 23, 2013
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