Background
He was born at Penzance in Cornwall to land speculator George Milner Stephen, who would later act as Governor of South Australia, and Mary Hindmarsh, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh, South Australia"s first governor.
He was born at Penzance in Cornwall to land speculator George Milner Stephen, who would later act as Governor of South Australia, and Mary Hindmarsh, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh, South Australia"s first governor.
He was educated in Melbourne and in Germany. A journalist, he edited two short-lived publications of his own, the Athenaeum and the Critic, and was briefly editor of the Sydney Punch. In 1885 Harold Stephen was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Monaro.
Defeated in 1887, he returned in 1889 but died nine months later in Newtown.