Henry Spencer Stephenson was born on 4 November 1871 in Mahabaleshwar, India, during the British Raj.
Col. Sussex Vane Stephenson of the Scots Fusilier Guards and his wife, Augusta Melita Spencer.
[1][7] Stephenson was a commissioner of Boy Scouts and chairman of his diocesan branch of the Church of England Temperance Society.
[8] Stephenson was appointed Chaplain to King George on 30 September 1938, replacing Canon Harold Costley-White, DD, who resigned.
[7] Through his mother, Stephenson was connected to the Spencer family of England and the Smalls of Dirnanean of Perthshire, Scotland.