Stephen Hyde Cassan

Stephen Hyde Cassan (1789–1841) was an English Anglican priest and ecclesiastical biographer.

The son of Stephen Cassan, a barrister, and his wife Sarah, daughter of Charles Mears, he was born in Calcutta, where his father was sheriff.

degree on 14 January 1815, received deacon's orders on 26 March following, and was ordained priest the next year.

[1] While curate of Frome, Somerset, in 1820, Cassan made a runaway match with Fanny, daughter of the late Rev.

[3] Moving from Frome, he held the curacy of Mere, Wiltshire, until 1831, when he was presented by Sir Colt Hoare to the living of Bruton with Wyke Champflower.