Sir Alexander Condie Stephen (20 July 1850 - 10 May 1908) KCMG KCVO CB was a British diplomat and translator from Russian and Persian.

He was the first translator of Lermontov's long poem "The Demon" into English, in 1875. He translated "Fairy Tales of a Parrot" from Persian in 1880.

He was knighted KCVO on 24 August 1900, for being HM minister resident in Dresden

Dresden

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 and Coburg

Coburg

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. He was Groom in Waiting to King Edward VII.

He was caricatured in a Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair (magazine, historical)

Vanity Fair has been the title of at least five magazines, including an 1859–1863 American publication, an 1868–1914 British publication, an unrelated 1902–1904 New York magazine, and a 1913–1936 American publication edited by Condé Nast, which was revived in 1983.Vanity Fair was notably a...

 "Spy" print on 18 December 1902, as "Russian, Persian and Turkish".

Stephen is buried in Brompton Cemetery

Brompton Cemetery

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, London.

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