Riccardo Stephens was a Cornish physician, writer and student of the occult who settled in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he frequented Patrick Geddes' University Hall, at Ramsay Garden.
Later in life, he moved on to northern Scotland prior to serving as Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War One. Stephens' writing career lasted from 1896 to 1912 and he died in 1923 at the age of 63.
