Theodore Stephenson
{{Short description|British Army general}}
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|birth_date = 1856
|birth_place = Weymouth, Dorset
|death_date = 1928
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|allegiance = United Kingdom
|branch = British Army
|serviceyears = 1874–1918
|rank = Major-General
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|commands = 65th (2nd Lowland) Division (1916)
Troops in the Straits Settlements (1910–1914)
2nd Division (1907–1910)
6th Division (1906–1907)
|battles = Second Boer War
Zulu Rebellion
First World War
|awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath
Mentioned in Despatches
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Major-General Theodore Edward Stephenson, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|CB}} (1856–1928) was a British Army officer who commanded the 2nd Division from 1907 to 1910.
Military career
Educated at Marlborough College,[http://www.pope-genealogy.me.uk/71907.html North Wiltshire Online Census Project—1871] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004153123/http://www.pope-genealogy.me.uk/71907.html |date=2011-10-04 }} Stephenson was commissioned into the 56th Regiment of Foot in 1874.{{London Gazette|issue=24135|page=4534|date=29 September 1874}} He served in the Second Boer War and commanded a column in the attack on Plessis Poort.{{cite web|url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19280218-1.2.73|publisher=Straits Times |title=Death of Major-General Stephenson|accessdate=27 June 2020}} In his final despatch from South Africa in June 1902, Lord Kitchener, Commander-in-Chief of the forces during the latter part of the war, described Stephenson as "an excellent Officer, who has displayed good sense wherever he has been employed".{{London Gazette |issue=27459 |date=29 July 1902 |pages=4835–4836 }} Following the end of the war in June 1902, he stayed on in South Africa for several months with a staff appointment and the local rank of major-general.{{London Gazette|issue=27496|page=7339|date=18 November 1902}}{{London Gazette |issue=27502 |date=9 December 1902 |page=8512}}
Stephenson also served in the Zulu Rebellion of 1905 and became General Officer Commanding 6th Division in November 1906,{{London Gazette|issue=27973|page=8538|date=4 December 1906}} General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in 1907,[http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf Army Commands] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |date=2015-07-05 }} and commander of the Troops in the Straits Settlements in 1910.
He served in the First World War as General Officer Commanding 65th (2nd Lowland) Division before retiring in 1918.
Family
Stephenson married Philippa Watson.[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/a/l/Norman-R-Baldwin/COL2-0023.html Family tree maker]
References
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{{s-bef|before=Arthur Wynne}}
{{s-ttl|title=General Officer Commanding 6th Division|years=1906–1907}}
{{s-aft|after=Lawrence Parsons}}
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{{s-bef|before=Bruce Hamilton}}
{{s-ttl|title=General Officer Commanding 2nd Division|years=1907–1910}}
{{s-aft|after=Henry Lawson}}
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{{s-bef|before=Thomas Perrott}}
{{s-ttl|title=General Officer Commanding Troops in the Straits Settlements|years=1910–1914}}
{{s-aft|after=Raymond Reade}}
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{{s-bef|before=Lord Erroll}}
{{s-ttl|title=General Officer Commanding 65th (2nd Lowland) Division|years=1916}}
{{s-aft|after=George Forestier-Walker}}
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Category:British Army major generals
Category:British Army generals of World War I
Category:Companions of the Order of the Bath
Category:56th Regiment of Foot officers
Category:People educated at Marlborough College