Frances Stephens (philanthropist)

Frances Stephens (January 27, 1851 – May 7, 1915) was a Canadian philanthropist of Scottish origin and a prominent woman of Montreal society.

One of her sisters was Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid, a prominent clubwoman in Montreal.

[1] In 1878, Frances McIntosh married the landowner and lawyer George Washington Stephens, Sr., who become Cabinet Minister of Québec.

[2] She and her infant grandson both died on the luxury steamboat RMS Lusitania, which was sunk by U-20, a German submarine.

En route to Canada for interment next to her predeceased husband, her body and casket were lost at sea as the ship transporting it, the RMS Hesperian, was sunk by the same submarine.