Frances Stephens (January 27, 1851 – May 7, 1915) was a Canadian philanthropist of Scottish origin and a prominent woman of Montreal society. Frances Ramsey McIntosh was born in

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in 1851, the daughter of Nicholas C. McIntosh and Margaret Brown McIntosh. Both of her parents were from

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in Scotland. One of her sisters was Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid, a prominent clubwoman in Montreal.Virginia Martin
"Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid"
, ''Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography'' (2016). In 1878, Frances McIntosh married the landowner and lawyer George Washington Stephens, Sr., who become Cabinet Minister of

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. They had a son, Francis Chattan Stephens (1887–1918), and two daughters. She and her infant grandson both died on the luxury steamboat RMS ''Lusitania'', which was sunk by '' U-20'', a German submarine. En route to Canada for interment next to her predeceased husband, her body and casket were lost at sea as the ship transporting it, the RMS ''Hesperian'', was sunk by the same submarine. In American media, this was referred to as a double jeopardy (double murder).

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