Member of Hackney's Maternity and Child Welfare Committee in 1938.
Sir Stephen James McAdden CBE was a Conservative politician. Educated Battersea. Worked as an export sales manager and company director. Councillor on Hackney Borough Council 1935–45; Woodford Borough Council 1945-48; Essex County Council 1947–48. MP for Southend East 1950 - his death in London.
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Our colleague, Andrew Behan, adds that Stephen James McAdden was born on 3 November 1907 in Ilford, Essex (now Greater London), the youngest of the three children William McAdden (1862-1916) and Elizabeth McAdden née Mulhern (1880-1943). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1907 in the Romford Registration District, Essex (now Greater London).
He was shown as aged 3 years when his father completed his census return form on 2 April 1911. He was living in a 7 roomed property at 10 Church Road, Kingsland, Hackney, London, with his parents and his two siblings: Mary Kathleen McAdden (1903-1996) and William John McAdden (1905-1978), together with a female general servant and two male boarders. His father described himself as a manager of a provisions business.
He was listed on the census return form that was compiled on 19 June 1921 as a pupil, aged 13 years 7 months, boarding at the Salesian College & Roman Catholic Schools, Surrey Lane, Battersea, London, SW11, whilst his widowed mother was shown living at 44 Navarino Mansions, Dalston Lane, London, E8, with his sister and his paternal uncle John McAdden.
In the 1st quarter of 1929 he married Catherine Maud Sutcliffe (b.1910) in the Liverpool Registration District, Lancashire (now Merseyside), and they had two children; Catherine Maud McAdden (1930-1997) and Stephen James Victor McAdden (1931-2001). Electoral registers in 1930 and 1931 show him and his wife listed at 16 Aiken Street, Dingle, Liverpool. The registers in 1932 list him, his wife and his wife's parents at 11 Hurry Street, Dingle, Liverpool.
However the registers in 1933 show him at 9 Navarino Mansions, Dalston Lane, with his mother, his two siblings and his maternal uncle. They had all moved to 9 Evelyn Court, Amhurst Road, Hackney, in the 1935 and 1936 electoral registers and apart from his sister they were all shown there in the 1938 registers.
Marriage registers show that he married Violet Irene Morgan (b.1912) in the 2nd quarter of 1938, in the Hackney Registration District.
However, in the 1st quarter of 1951 he married a widow, Doris Katherine Hearle née Gillies (1918-2011) in the Hackney Registration District.
Telephone directories show that from 1955 to 1968 he was listed at 3 The Broadway, Thorpe Bay, Southend-on-Sea, Essex and from 1969 at 552 Woodgrange Drive, Southend-on-Sea.
He was made an Ordinary Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the for political and public services and was created a Knight Bachelor for political and public services in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 1962.
He died, aged 72 years, in a London hospital having fallen down stairs at Westminster underground station on 21 December 1979. His death was not registered until the 4th quarter of 1980 in the Lambeth Registration District, Greater London. Wikipedia claims (in 2026) that he died on 27 December 1979, citing an article in The Guardian newspaper dated 28 December 1979. However, an obituary in the Associated Press, New York, USA, dated 28 December 1979, claims that he died on Wednesday, 26 December 1979. Probate records also show that he died on 26 December 1979 and confirm that his home address was 552 Woodgrange Drive, Thorpe Bay, Southend-on-Sea. Probate was granted on 5 February 1980 and his effects totalled £15,204.
He is shown as 'Councillor S. J. McAdden' on the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre memorial stone at the Elsdale Street Surgery, 28 Elsdale Street, London, E9.
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