Alexander Condie Stephen
British diplomat
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| Intro | British diplomat | |
| A.K.A. | Sir Alexander Stephen Sir Alexander Condie Stephen | |
| A.K.A. | Sir Alexander Stephen Sir Alexander Condie Stephen | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Linguist Diplomat | |
| Work field | Literature Social science Politics | |
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| Birth | 20 July 1850 | |
| Death | 10 May 1908 (aged 57 years) |
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Sir Alexander Condie Stephen KCMG KCVO CB (20 July 1850 – 10 May 1908) 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.