James Stevenson, 1st Baron Stevenson , GCMG (2 April 1873 – 10 June 1926), known as Sir James Stevenson, Bt , between 1917 and 1924, was a British businessman and civil servant.
21-434: Lord Stevenson may refer to: James Stevenson, 1st Baron Stevenson (1873–1926), British businessman and civil servant James Stevenson, Lord Stevenson , British judge Dennis Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Coddenham (born 1945), British businessman Wilf Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara (born 1947), British Labour life peer and former adviser Topics referred to by
42-504: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages James Stevenson, 1st Baron Stevenson Stevenson was educated at the Kilmarnock Academy . It would appear that his education there was interrupted – perhaps because his parents had had to withdraw him due to an inability to pay school fees – for when he enrolled in 1887 he had a previous admission number. Stevenson joined
63-686: The County of Surrey , on 11 April 1917. After the war he continued in government service and from 1921 he worked as a personal adviser to Winston Churchill , then Secretary of State for the Colonies . Immediately after the First World War he was responsible for the Stevenson Plan , which was an effort by the UK government to stabilise low rubber prices after a world glut of rubber. Stevenson
84-633: The House of Commons ). The circulation of the US edition was minimal in the early 1890s but was reported at 150,000 by 1898. The US edition was discontinued in 1916 due to logistical difficulties arising from World War I . The American edition was edited by J. Walter Smith . The magazine format changed to the smaller digest size in October 1941. The Strand Magazine ceased publication in March 1950, forced out of
105-667: The Johnnie Walker whisky blending company in 1888, working his way up to become its joint Managing Director. He is credited with having come up with the company's advertising slogan 'Born in 1820 – still going strong'. During the First World War he was appointed to a senior position in the Ministry of Munitions and in return for his service was created a Baronet , of Walton Heath in the Parish of Walton-on-the-Hill in
126-436: The 21st Century. He was raised to the peerage 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
147-548: The UK (some were published earlier or in the same month in US magazines). Other contributors included E. W. Hornung , Graham Greene , Rudyard Kipling , W. Somerset Maugham , E. Nesbit , Dorothy L. Sayers , Georges Simenon , Leo Tolstoy , and H. G. Wells , as well as Grant Allen , Margery Allingham , H. C. McNeile (aka Sapper), J. E. Preston Muddock , E. C. Bentley , Mary Angela Dickens , C. B. Fry , Walter Goodman , W. W. Jacobs , Arthur Morrison , Edgar Wallace , Max Beerbohm and Dornford Yates . In addition to
168-672: The United States in the US edition of The Strand Magazine a month after being published in the UK edition. 38 of the Sherlock Holmes stories, including The Hound of the Baskervilles , were illustrated by Sidney Paget in The Strand . Paget's illustrations helped form the popular image of Holmes. With the serialisation of Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles , sales reached their peak. Readers lined up outside
189-461: The contents of the US edition were identical with those of the UK edition, though usually with a one-month time lag. As the years went on there were some differences in the contents of the two editions, reflecting fiction for which The Strand did not hold the US rights (such as The Return of Sherlock Holmes , which was commissioned by Collier's magazine) and non-fiction that would not interest most US readers (such as articles about personalities in
210-522: The demand for such works. He edited Perplexities from 1910 until he died in 1930. G. H. Savage became the column's editor, soon to be joined by William Thomas Williams (as W. T. Williams), who in 1935 authored the best-known cross-figure puzzle of today. The puzzle goes by many names, the original being "The Little Pigley Farm". It has also been known as "Dog's Mead", "Little Pigley", "Little Piggly Farm", "Little Pigsby", "Pilgrims' Plot", and "Dog Days". Some articles by Winston Churchill were published in
231-462: The editor until 1930. The magazine published factual articles in addition to fictional short stories and series. It was targeted at a mass market readership. The initial price of an issue was sixpence, about half the typical rate for comparable titles at the time. Initial sales were around 300,000, and circulation soon rose to half a million. The magazine also published a United States edition from February 1891 through February 1916. In its early years,
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#1732786707550252-418: The first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890. Its immediate popularity is evidenced by an initial sale of nearly 300,000. Sales increased in the early months, before settling down to a circulation of almost 500,000 copies a month, which lasted well into the 1930s. It was edited by Herbert Greenhough Smith from 1891 to 1930. The popularity of Sherlock Holmes became widespread after first appearing in
273-466: The magazine in 1891. The magazine's original offices were on Burleigh Street off The Strand , London. It was revived in 1998 as a quarterly magazine. The Strand Magazine was founded by George Newnes in 1890, and its first edition was dated January 1891. The magazine's original offices were located on Burleigh Street, off the Strand , London. The first editor was Herbert Greenhough Smith , who remained
294-640: The magazine's offices, waiting to get the next installment. Doyle also wrote other stories that were published in The Strand Magazine . A number of short stories by Agatha Christie were first published in The Strand in the UK, such as the Hercule Poirot stories collected in The Labours of Hercules . Many short stories by P. G. Wodehouse , including most of Wodehouse's Jeeves short stories, were first published in The Strand in
315-429: The magazine. Once a sketch drawn by Queen Victoria of one of her children appeared with her permission. The magazine's iconic cover, an illustration looking eastwards down London's Strand towards St Mary-le-Strand , with the title suspended on telegraph wires, was the work of Victorian artist and designer George Charles Haité . The initial cover featured a corner plaque showing the name of Burleigh Street, home to
336-432: The many fiction pieces and illustrations, The Strand has been also known for some time as the source of ground-breaking brain teasers, under a column called "Perplexities", first written by Henry Dudeney . Dudeney introduced many new concepts to the puzzle world, including the first known crossnumber puzzle, in 1926. In that same year, Dudeney produced an article, "The Psychology of Puzzle Crazes", reflecting and analysing
357-451: The market by declining circulation and rising costs. Its last editor was Macdonald Hastings , distinguished war correspondent and later TV reporter and contributor to the Eagle boys' comic. In 1961, the magazine was briefly revived as The New Strand under the editorship of Noni Jabavu . It was normally bound as six-monthly volumes, from January to June and July to December, but from
378-476: The mid-1930s this varied, and the final volumes in the late 1940s ran from October to March and April to September, the final volume CXVIII (118) running from October 1949 to March 1950. The magazine was revived in 1998 in the US (see below). The Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle were first published in The Strand in the UK. Some of the stories were previously or simultaneously published in US magazines, while several were first published in
399-468: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lord Stevenson . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord_Stevenson&oldid=1169397241 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Title and name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
420-596: 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. The Strand Magazine The Strand Magazine was a monthly British magazine founded by George Newnes , composed of short fiction and general interest articles. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950, running to 711 issues, though
441-628: Was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) in the 1922 New Year Honours . Stevenson later chaired the Standing Committee responsible for the British Empire Exhibition (1924–25). London's Wembley Stadium had been built as a temporary home for the exhibition, but Scotsman Stevenson fought successfully to prevent its demolition and it continued as an English national stadium into
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