Researching Philip Stead
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 6125 people with the Stead surname? In that year Stead was ranked number 685 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Philip means "lover of horses" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Philip Stead on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Philip Stead and the Stead Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 6809 people with the Stead surname in the UK? Stead is now ranked number 884 for popularity in the UK. |
Stead Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called Philip Stead
Philip John Stead
Philip John Stead OBE, FRSL (5 February 1915 - 22 June 2005), was an English criminologist, author, literary critic, translator and poet. After retirement in the United Kingdom, he emigrated to New York and then Massachusetts.
Stead was born in Swinton, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1915 and was educated at Oxford University. Moving to London, he became a member of The Critics' Circle. During World War II, he served in the British Army in North Africa, Italy, France, Belgium and Germany. In 1946, he was demobilised with the rank of captain. In 1947, he married Judith Irene Freeder and lived in Kensington. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950 and was appointed to the National Police College at Bramshill House in 1953. In 1966 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In 1971 he took sabbatical leave to teach at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.
When he retired from Bramshill in 1974, Stead returned to John Jay College as professor of police studies and was appointed dean of graduate studies. He emigrated to Manhattan with his wife and worked with the police section of the UN Convention on the Prevention of Crime. He finally retired in 1982 and moved to Hyannis, Massachusetts and then South Yarmouth where he wrote poetry and took up amateur dramatics. He died there on 22 June 2005, aged 89 years.
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