[1][2] Stokoe became a deacon of the Church of England in 1857 and was ordained a priest by Thomas Musgrave, Archbishop of York, in 1858.
[1][3] Stokoe's wife had one surviving brother, an officer of the 59th who served in the Second Opium War, and four sisters, two of whom also married clergymen, H. Piggot-James, a chaplain to the East India Company, and Charles James Fuller, vicar of Ovingham, Northumberland.
[5][6] In September 1862 Stokoe joined the staff of the newly founded Clifton College in Bristol, becoming the first schoolmaster recorded in the school register.
[3] On retiring from King's College School, Stokoe became an honorary fellow of King's College, London, and served as rector of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, from 1889 to 1894, of St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford, from 1894 to 1897, and of Waddington, Lincolnshire, from then until his death.
[8] His elder son, Henry Robert Stokoe, was an author on classical languages whose works include Latin Verbs (1935)[9] and The Understanding of Syntax (1937).