Stephen Popham (5 July 1745 – 13 June 1795) was a British politician and solicitor who is remembered for improving the residential locality of Georgetown in the city of Chennai, India and reforming the civic and police administration.
[2] Popham entered politics in 1776 and was elected to the Irish House of Commons in June 1776 as MP for Castlebar.
[3] He arrived in India about this time and was worked in Calcutta as Secretary to Sir John Day, the Advocate-General of Bengal.
[5] The Pophams Broadway at Madras was once a fine road bisecting George Town into Peddanaickenpet and Muthialpet.
Before, it was a road, it was a ditch in the suburb called Atta Pallam, and was owned by Stephen Popham, former MP of the British Parliament and later Advocate General at Calcutta, who moved to Madras in 1778.