Theodore Stephenson
British Army general (1856–1928)
Major-General Theodore Edward Stephenson, (1856–1928) was a British Army officer who commanded the 2nd Division from 1907 to 1910.
Military career
Educated at Marlborough College, Stephenson was commissioned into the 56th Regiment of Foot in 1874.
He was promoted to captain in the Essex Regiment on 27 November 1883.
He served in the Second Boer War, which began in October 1899, and commanded a column in the attack on Plessis Poort. In his final despatch from South Africa in June 1902, Lord Kitchener, the commander-in-chief (C-in-C) of the forces during the latter part of the war, described Stephenson as "an excellent Officer, who has displayed good sense wherever he has been employed".
Following the end of the war in May 1902, he stayed on in South Africa for several months with a staff appointment and the local rank of major general.
Stephenson also served in the Zulu Rebellion of 1905 and became General Officer Commanding 6th Division in November 1906, General Officer Commanding 2nd Division in 1907, and commander of the Troops in the Straits Settlements in 1910.
He served in the First World War as General Officer Commanding 65th (2nd Lowland) Division before retiring in 1918.
Family
Stephenson married Philippa Watson.
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