Dead Man's Chest Dead Man's Chest "Dead Man's Chest" (also known as "Fifteen Men On The Dead Man's Chest" or "Derelict") is a fictional sea song, originally from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island" (1883). It was expanded in a poem, titled "Derelict" by Young E. Allison, published in the "Louisville Courier-Journal" in 1891. It has since been used in many later works of art in various forms. Stevenson found the name "Dead Man's Chest" among a list of Virgin Island names in a book by Charles Kingsley, possibly in reference to the Dead Chest Island off Peter Island in the British Virgin
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