John Stephenson (MP)

John Stephenson (MP)

John Stephenson (c.1709 – 17 April 1794) was a British merchant from Brentford, Middlesex, and a Member of Parliament for various western boroughs from 1754 to 1755 and 1761 until his death.

He was a director of the British East India Company from 1765 to 1768, and had government victualling contracts in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland at the time of the American Revolution. [cite journal | title=Social Structure and Political Behavior in Revolutionary America: John Day's Remarks on American Affairs | first=Jack P. | last=Greene | journal=The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser. | volume=32 | number=3 | month=July | year=1975 | pages=487 | url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28197507%293%3A32%3A3%3C481%3ASSAPBI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M | accessdate=2007-01-11]

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