Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and practised first in Liverpool, where for twenty-five years he was Surgeon to the Woolton Dispensary, then at 1 The Quadrant, Buxton, where he was Surgeon to the Buxton Bath Charity and Devonshire Hospital, and published reports of cases treated there. H

Born at Manchester; went to Clarke's School and the Manchester Grammar School, and was then apprenticed to his uncle, Joseph Jordan, Surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary and founder of the Mount Street School of Anatomy. Here Stephens laid the foundation of his extensive knowledge of anatomy. I