Henry Charles ('Inky') Stephens

Henry Charles ('Inky') Stephens MP, FLS, FGS, FCS
Born	1841
Died	1918
Residence	Avenue House, Church End, Finchley ditto; and 4 Carlton Gardens, SW [1900] Cholderton, Salisbury [1903]
Occupation	business political
Society Membership membership Ordinary fellow - life compounder elected_AI 1880.01.27 clubs Royal Societies Club societies Linnean Society of London Geological Society Chemical Society Royal Geographical Society

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proposed 1880.01.13

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Henry Charles "Inky" Stephens (February 1841 – July 1918)[1] was an English businessman and Conservative Party[2] politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1887 to 1900 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Hornsey division of Middlesex.
The family moved to Finchley, north London, in 1844 ... in 1874 purchased nearby Avenue House in East End Road and ten acres of adjacent land, on a site formerly known as Temple Croft Field
In 1887 he proposed, and later partially financed, the establishment of a park in Finchley to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, and this was finally opened in 1902 as Victoria Park, Finchley's first public park. When Stephens died in 1918, he bequeathed Avenue House and its ten acres of grounds to 'the people of Finchley' on condition that it should be 'open for the use and enjoyment always of the public under reasonable regulations'.

Known as Inky. His father invented ‘blue-black’ ink. He developed his father’s ink business and built a factory at Finchley. He was Conservative MP for Hornsey 1887-1900. He later lived in Cholderton, Wiltshire where he set up the Cholderton & District Water Co. Stephens’ home, Avenue House, now houses his collections and is open to the public