David Henry Stone

[1] His family were the owners of a large amount of land near Lewes for at least three centuries.

He was the nephew of Thomas Farncomb the Lord Mayor of London of 1849.

Educated at St Olave's Grammar School, in Southwark.

[2] He first became associated with the City of London Corporation in 1840, when he was appointed Under-Sheriff to Alderman Farncombe.

[1] From 1863 he resided at 'Fairwood' on Sydenham Hill, in the affluent suburb south of the city.