His is listed as a citizen & grocer. Alderman, 1589-1619; Mayor, 1598. Another listing shows him as citizen & girdler, Master 1598.
From Burke's A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies: Sir Stephen Soame, was of Betley, in Norfolk, and of London, of which city he was sheriff in 1589, and lord mayor in 1598. He purchased the manor of Brickendon, in the county of Hertford, and several other estates, and married Anne, daughter of William Stone, esq. of Segenhoe, in the county of Bedford, by whom he had six sons and five daughters. Sir Stephen d. 23rd May, 1619, aged seventy-five, was buried in Little Thurlow (called by several names), and succeeded by his eldest son.