Robert Hearfield Stephenson DSO (3 June 1906 – 9 November 1942) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer.
The son of William Hugh Stephenson and his wife, Ethel, he was born in June 1906 at Brough, Yorkshire.
He made two further first-class appearances for the navy in 1928, playing against the British Army cricket team and the Royal Air Force.
[5] Stephenson was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in May 1937,[6] before later serving in the Second World War.
[1][8] Stephenson was killed aboard HMS Cromer when the ship hit a mine off the coast of the Egyptian port of Mersa Matruh on 9 November 1942.