Roger Stevens (diplomat)

Sir Roger Bentham Stevens, GCMG (8 June 1906 – 20 February 1980) was a British academic, diplomat and civil servant.

[1] He married his first wife, Constance Hallam Hipwell (died 1976), in 1931, and they later had a son, Bryan Constant Sebastian Bentham Stevens.

He died on 20 February 1980, and she deposited his papers in the Churchill Archives, University of Cambridge in 1984.

[2] In 1928 Stevens entered the UK Consular Service, serving in Buenos Aires, New York City, Antwerp, Denver, and the Foreign Office in London.

[4] He is commemorated in the Roger Stevens Building on the campus of Leeds University.