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You can assist by editing it now. A how-to guide is available. (July 2007) Sir James Fitzjames Stephen March 3 ) was an English lawyer and judge , created 1st Baronet Stephen by Queen Victoria Contents edit Early Life Born in Kensington London , he was the grandson of James Stephen , the brother of Sir Leslie Stephen , and the uncle of author Virginia Woolf . He was educated at Eton College , and for two years at King's College London . In October 1847 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge . Although an outstanding student he did not win any prizes, mainly because he was uninterested in mathematics or classics which formed the basis of the course. He was already acquainted with Sir Henry Maine , six years his senior, and then newly appointed to the Chair of civil law at Cambridge. Although their temperaments were very different, their acquaintance became a strong friendship, which ended only with Maine's death in 1888. Stephen was introduced by Maine into the Cambridge society known as the Apostles , a body with an unformulated but most individual tradition of open-mindedness and absolute mutual tolerance in all matters of opinion. It contained a remarkable group of men who afterwards became eminent in different ways: for example | |
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