Robert Louis Stevenson The Samoans insisted on surrounding his body with a watch-guard during the night and on bearing him on their shoulders to nearby Mount Vaea, where they buried him on a spot overlooking the sea on land donated by British Acting Vice Consul Thomas Trood. Stevenson had always wanted his Requiem inscribed on his tomb: Stevenson was loved by the Samoans, and his tombstone epigraph was translated to a Samoan song of grief. Half of Stevenson's original manuscripts are lost, including those of "Treasure Island", "The Black Arrow," and "The Master of Ballantrae". His heirs sold his papers during World War
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