Robert Louis Stevenson to erect it was raised by the Colinton Community Conservation Trust. A plaque above the door of a house in Castleton of Braemar states "Here R.L. Stevenson spent the Summer of 1881 and wrote Treasure Island, his first great work". A garden was designed by the Bournemouth Corporation in 1957 as a memorial to Stevenson, on the site of his Westbourne house, "Skerryvore", which he occupied from 1885 to 1887. A statue of the Skerryvore lighthouse is present on the site. In 1966, the Canadian actor Lloyd Bochner played Stevenson in the episode "Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo" of the
James Stevenson, 1st Baron Stevenson as Baron Stevenson, of Holmbury in the County of Surrey, on 7 May 1924, during the first premiership of Ramsay MacDonald. He was the first person from Kilmarnock to be elevated to the peerage. According to his obituary, in 1912 he published a novel, "The Kiss of Chance" (published by Eveleigh Nash, London, pp. 301), under the pseudonym Roland Dunster. A second novel was "An Incurable Disease" which "The Strand" magazine says was illustrated by Septimus Edwin Scott. Lord Stevenson died on 10 June 1926, aged 53, when the baronetcy and barony became extinct. James Stevenson, 1st Baron Stevenson James