STEVENS, Edward Cephas John 1837–1915

Born Oxfordshire: educated Marlborough College and at Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. 1858 arrived at Lyttelton on the Zealandia and established himself in Christchurch as a land agent. Had a provincial and later parliamentary political career. In 1863 was on the committee, with Samuel Butler, J. Ollivier, and Andrew Hamilton, for a proposed Society of Fine Arts in Christchurch.