Stephen Weston (antiquary)

Stephen Weston FRS FSA (1747 – 8 January 1830) was an English antiquarian, clergyman and man of letters.

[1][2] About 1771 Weston accompanied Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde as tutor in a long tour on the continent of Europe.

Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne, an early friend, nominated Weston on 29 March 1777 to the rectory of Mamhead, Devon.

Auction catalogues of the "remaining portion of his library" and of his "Greek and Roman coins and medals" were issued that year.

[1] Weston in 1802 made an English translation of the Greek text of the trilingual Rosetta Stone.

His works included:[1] Weston contributed to Archæologia on coins and medals between 1798 and 1818, and supplied notes, signed "S. W.", to Johnson and Steevens' Shakspeare (1793), and to the new edition (1802) by Samuel Rousseau of John Richardson's Specimen of Persian Poetry: or Odes of Hafiz.

[1] In 1784 Weston married Penelope, youngest daughter of James Tierney, a commissioner of accounts, of Cleeve Hill in Mangotsfield parish, Gloucestershire.