Stephen de Lancey (1748 in New York City – 6 December 1798 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire[1][2]) was Chief Justice of the Bahamas and Governor of Tobago.
De Lancey was the son of Major-General Oliver De Lancey, Sr. and Phila Franks, whose Ashkenazi Jewish parents had emigrated from London in the early eighteenth century.
De Lancey was a lawyer who served as the Clerk of the city and county of Albany, New York in 1765.
In 1786, he was a member of the Nova Scotia Council and served as Chief Justice of the Bahamas from 1790 to 1797.
[3][4] Together, they were the parents of two children: Delancey died on 6 December 1798 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire while serving as Governor of Tobago.