537 Stephen Gaselee

Constituency : Portsmouth  1865-8

Stephen  took  the  second  Portsmouth  seat  from  the  Tories.

Stephen  was  the  son  of  a  judge. He  was  educated  at  Winchester  and  Oxford.  He  became  a barrister. He  contested  Portsmouth  for  the  first  time  in  a  by-election  in  1850.

Stephen  was  a  director  of  the  London  and  South  Western  Railway. He  instituted  a  scholarship  at  Portsmouth  Grammar  School.

Stephen  was  antagonistic  towards  Mill  and  voted  with  Disraeli  on  passing  the  fine  to  settle  the  matter. He  supported  household  suffrage  and  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  the  debates  around  the  Second  Reform  Act. He  opposed  the  idea  of  municipal  housing.

Stephen  was  defeated  in  1868.

He  died  in  1883  aged  76.