Career
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 Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order on 24 August 1900, for being Her Majesty 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.