Stephen Cassan (barrister)

Stephen Cassan (1758–1794) was an Irish barrister in Calcutta,[1] where he was one of the founders of the Bengal Journal. He was High Sheriff of Calcutta in 1785.[2]

Life

He was the youngest son of Stephen Cassan (1725–1773) of Sheffield House, Queen's County, Ireland.[1][3] He went to Trinity College, Dublin in 1773, joined the Middle Temple in 1778, and was called to the bar in 1781.[1][4][5]

Cassan founded the Bengal Journal, a weekly newspaper, in 1785, with Thomas Jones.[6] In 1789 he owned two-thirds of the Bengal Journal, with James Dunkin. They brought in William Duane to improve the publication, and the circulation more than doubled in 1790.[7]

William Hickey states that Cassan after marrying went to Bombay to practise in the Mayor's Court, but died spitting blood.[8] He is also said to have died in Bengal, intestate, on 26 January 1794.[9]

Family

Cassan married Sarah Mears, and was father of Stephen Hyde Cassan.[3][5] Sarah Cassan was the daughter of Captain Charles Mears, of Coleraine and the Egmont East Indiaman, son of the minister John Mears.[10] She published a book of poems in 1806.[11]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Sylvanus Urban (1810). The Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle. p. 668.
  2. ↑ The Bengal Almanac, for 1827, compiled by S. Smith and co. 1827. p. xxi.
  3. 1 2 John Debrett (1820). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. p. 452.
  4. ↑ "A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars: With Brief Biographical Notices". Internet Archive. 1902. p. 46. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  5. 1 2 John Burke (1837). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc. - London, Henry Colburn 1837-1838. Henry Colburn. p. 650.
  6. ↑ Brijendra Mohan Sankhdher (1984). Press, Politics, and Public Opinion in India: Dynamics of Modernization and Social Transformation. Deep & Deep Publications. p. 33.
  7. ↑ Nigel Little (2008). Transoceanic Radical, William Duane: National Identity and Empire 1760-1835. Pickering & Chatto. pp. 51–2. ISBN 978-1-85196-929-6.
  8. ↑ William Hickey (1925). Memoirs of William Hickey. 4 1790-1809). A. A. Knopf. p. 4.
  9. ↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. H. Colburn. 1847. p. 197.
  10. ↑ The European Magazine, and London Review. Philological Society of London. 1814. p. 223.
  11. ↑ www.oac.cdlib.org, Poems by Mrs. Cassan
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