About John Stephenson
Lived 1709 – 1794 (aged 84–85). John Stephenson was a politician.
John Stephenson (c. 1709 – 17 April 1794) was a British Member of Parliament.
He was the son and heir of Thomas Stephenson of Bails and Crosslands, Alston, Cumbria and a Member of Parliament for various boroughs in the south-west from 1754 to 1755 and 1761 until his death in 1794.
He was a director of the British East India Company from 1765 to 1768, and had government victualling contracts in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland at the time of the American Revolution.
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British politician
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