Doctor and Inventor. Born Finchley. He invented an indelible blue-black ink. Not to be confused with his son Henry Charles 'Inky' Stephens.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Henry Stephens
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Keats and Stephens
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Albion Mills
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