Sir Henry Stephenson, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Kenyon Stephenson, 1st Baronet DSO (16 August 1865 – 20 September 1947[1]) was a British Liberal politician and businessman.

He became the chairman and managing director of Stephenson, Blake & Co Ltd, (1927)[2] and later the Chair of the Sheffield Gas Company.

[4] Stephenson joined the Liberal Party and was elected to Sheffield City Council, becoming lord mayor in 1908–09 and again in 1910–11.

[5][6][7][8] At the 1918 general election, he became the first Member of Parliament for the Sheffield Park constituency, holding the seat as a National Liberal in 1922, but dropping to a distant third place in 1923.

[5][1] On 10 January 1894 he married Frances, eldest daughter of Major William Blake of Mylnhurst, Eccleshall, Sheffield.