Henry John Stephen (1787–1864) was an English legal writer and serjeant-at-law.
Nervous and shy, though an accomplished lawyer, he was not successful as a barrister, but became known as a legal writer.
[1] In 1842 Stephen was on a commission on forgery of exchequer bills, and in the same year became commissioner of bankruptcy at Bristol, with Matthew Davenport Hill as his colleague.
In later years he was reclusive, involved in speculating on prophecy and musical theory.
After his stepmother's death, from 1815 till 1832, he kept house for his father in Kensington Gore.