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Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.
Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. Stevenson spent several years in search of a location suited to his health, before finally settling in Samoa, where he died.
A celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson attracted a more negative critical response for much of the 20th century, though his reputation has been largely restored. He is currently ranked as the 26th most translated author in the world.

Mr. John A. Stevenson, noted Canadian journalist, was born in 1883 in Ayrshire, Scotland and was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and Merton College, Oxford, receiving his B.A. in 1906. He entered jornalism as an editorial contributor to the Winnipeg Free Press. From 1918 he was in Ottawa, as a correspondent of the Toronto Star. From 1926 to 1940 he had the position of Chief Canadian Correspondent of the London Times. He was an editorial writer for the Toronto Globe and Mail from 1940 to 1946, and the Ottawa Editor for Saturday Night as well as the Canadian correspondent of the Manchester Guardian until his retirement in 1958. In his over fifty years in Canada, he gained a reputation as a journalist of skill and integrity. In 1960, he received an Honorary L.L.D. from Queen's University. He died in 1970.

J.G.A. Stevenson was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

David Barker Stevenson was a businessman, justice of the peace, office holder, and politician. He was born November 17, 1801 in Clinton (Hyde Park), N.Y., son of Timothy Stevenson and Phoebe Barker. On December 14, 1830 he married Agnes Rebecca Dougall of Hallowell (Picton), Upper Canada, and they had one daughter. He died on March 3, 1859 in Picton.

Stevenson emigrated to Canada in 1824 and took up residence in the village of Hallowell in Prince Edward County where his Barker relatives had previously emigrated. He did business as a general merchant in grain, timber and other commodities. Stevenson had a varied career of public service, at municipal, county and provincial levels. He was a member of Picton's first elected town council (1850) and continued to serve on that body until 1854, at which time he was elected Mayor. He was also a member of the first Municipal Council of Prince Edward District, Warden of the District and, following the Municipal Reform Bill, Warden of the County in 1851-1853. A Conservative in politics, Stevenson was elected member for Prince Edward in the Provincial Parliament in 1848 and twice re-elected. He was defeated in the general election of 1857. Other positions held by Steveson include the presidency of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, orgainzed at Picton in 1836, and the secretaryship of the Prince Edward County Agricultural Society.

Stevenson's early religious sympathies lay with the Society of Friends, but a few years after his arrival in Hallowell he joined the Church of England, being listed among those renting pews in the new Church of St. Mary Magdalene in 1830.

Kingston, Ont.

Gerald Stevens was an historian and researcher. He died in 1981. He published works documenting early Canadian artifacts, from furniture to glass. His large and definitive study of Canadian glass was finished but not published. It was left to Ralph Hedlin and Heidi Redekop, to collate and edit the manuscript, provide the photographs of the pieces he had identified and push the work forward to completion.

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The Stevens family was based in Delta, Ontario.

Poet, Melbourne, Australia.