Stephen Law (1699 – 25 December 1787) was the Governor of Bombay from 7 April 1739 to 15 November 1742.
Law was born into a merchant family and became an East India Company writer in Bombay in 1715, graduating in 1720 to become a factor.
He was recalled in 1742 following accusations of excessive expenditure in protecting the settlement from the Marathas.
[1] After his wife died in January 1785,[2] he moved to Goudhurst in Kent.
His daughter Stephana had married John Cartier, the ex-Governor of Bengal.