William Stephens Politician
William Richard Wood Stephens was Dean of Winchester in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and graduated in 1862. Ordained in 1865, he began his career with a curacy in Staines, after which he was Vicar of Mid Lavant, a Lecturer at Chichester Theological College and Rector of Woolbeding before his elevation to the Deanery. His death was attributed to eating oysters at a banquet in honour of the Mayor of Winchester.