Stevenson, Joseph ♂

Education

LL.D. 20.11.1893 (recommended by Lord Bute).

Birth/childhood

Born 27.11.1806 eldest son of Robert Stevenson, surgeon, Berwick and Elizabeth Wilson. [Doctor]

Career

Studied Glasgow University and Edinburgh University.

Licensed by Chirnside presbytery 1829.

Worked in Dept. of MSS, British Museum [Department of Manuscripts, British Museum] 1831-1834. Public Record Office 1834-1838. Entered Church of England 1839. Vicar Leighton Buzzard 1849-1862. Joined Church of Rome 1863. Priest 1872. S.J. [Society of Jesus] 1885. [Minister, Jesuit]

Publications. Cousin of Elizabeth Gaskell.

Death

Died in London 8.2.1895.

Sources

• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae
• F. Boase, Modern English Biography...1851-1900. 6v. (Truro, 1892-1921)
• DNB
• St Andrews Citizen 23.2.1895 p4