Background
Stenhouse was born in Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland and was a writer of taste and a great lover of literature.
Stenhouse was born in Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland and was a writer of taste and a great lover of literature.
He was clerk to Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet when the latter was practising as an advocate in Edinburgh. Having embraced the legal profession, he emigrated to New South Wales, and practised for many years as an attorney and solicitor in Sydney. He was a veritable Mæcenas to many needy and struggling literary men in Sydney.
Stenhouse died on 18 February 1873 in Balmain, New South Wales.
Not long before his death he was, on the motion of that great scholar, Doctor Charles Badham, appointed an examiner in the Faculty of Law and a member of the senate of the University of Sydney.