Sir Charles Cecil Stevens K. C. S. I.

Born: 5 Apr 1840, , , Tahiti
Marriage (1): Mary Anne Caroline Turner on 16 Dec 1862 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Died: 27 Mar 1909, Kensington, London, England aged 68

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• General Comment. Charles Cecil STEVENS KCSI1

(1840 - 1909)

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Father* Charles Green STEVENS1 b. 1810
Mother* Deborah Hannah BLOMFIELD1 b. 1817, d. 1908

Charles Cecil STEVENS KCSI was born on 5 July 1840 in Tahiti.1,2 He went to school in England at the Birmingham & Edgbaston Proprietory School, but moved to Australia and matriculated at the new University of Melbourne in February 1856 (the 17th person to matriculate in the colony of Victoria), was awarded a Mathematics Exhibition and went back to UK where he took his degree at London University with honours in Classics and Mathematics in 1860. Then in 1860 he sat and passed the open competition for the Indian Civil Service, taking third place. He had a distinguished career in India over the next 39 years, in many posts including Chief Secretary to the Bengal Government, and finally Lieut-Governor of Bengal in 1897-8. Retired 1898, and was knighted (appointed Knight Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India in 1905).1 He received a degree in May 1860 at London, Middlesex.3 He was listed in the 1861 census at 17 Lloyd Sq, St Sepulchre in London, Middlesex,4 giving his occupation as "BA, selected for I.C. Service"!4 He received a degree in August 1861 at England being awarded 8th place in the Civil Service of India examinations.5
He married Mary Anne Caroline TURNER in Calcutta, Bengal, on 16 December 1862.6,7 Charles was awarded the Knight Commander of the Star of India (KCSI) in Jan 1895.8 He was listed as head of household in the 1901 census at 32 Harcourt Tce in Kensington, London, Middlesex,9 as a retired civil servant.9
Charles Cecil STEVENS KCSI died on 27 March 1909 at 32 Harcourt Tce in Kensington, London, Middlesex, at age 68.10

Family
Mary Anne Caroline TURNER (1841 - 1933)
Children ?Charles Richard STEVENS+1 (1865 - 1900)
?Cecil Robert STEVENS MD, FRCS+1 (1867 - 1919)
?Algernon Francis STEVENS+ (1869 - 1922)
?Nina STEVENS (1872 - 1908)
?Arthur Cornish Jeremie STEVENS (1875 - )
?Henry Herbert STEVENS (1876 - )

Charts Stephen Blomfield (c1750?-1809) descendancy

Citations
1.[S482] Email - R Macdonald, email and other correspondence to D Ferguson, 12 Dec 2006 onwards.
2.[S530] Find My Past website, at http://www.findmypast.com/home.jsp, see 'Civil Service evidence of age' database, original reference ICS 1860-090.
3.[S6] Times of London, Thursday, May 10, 1860; pg. 12; Issue 23616; col B.
4.[S340] Census - 7 Apr 1861, UK census, ED 2 RG9-188 Folio 21 p46 GSU roll 542588.
5.[S6] Times of London, Saturday, Aug 24, 1861; pg. 11; Issue 24020; col B.
6.[S485] Families in British India (FIBIS), at http://www.fibis.org, Bengal marriage indexes, Vol 102, Folio 616.
7.[S189] International Genealogical Index (IGI), India Marriages collection, Batch number M49324-7, Record group India-EASy, Film number 499008.
8.[S501] The Guardian, Jan 1, 1895; Page: 5.
9.[S430] Census - 31 Mar 1901, UK census, ED 17 RG13-36 Folio 127, p9.
10.[S6] Times of London, Monday, Mar 29, 1909; pg. 13; Issue 38919; col C. Also reported in The Observer 28 Mar 1909 p11, which claimed he 'had an altercation with a cabman at his house yesterday and suddenly fell down and expired.'
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Charles married Mary Anne Caroline Turner on 16 Dec 1862 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. (Mary Anne Caroline Turner was born on 16 Nov 1841 in , West Bengal, India, christened on 15 Apr 1842 in Secrole Benares, West Bengal, India and died on 1 Apr 1933 in Paignton, Devon, England.)

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