[2] Though he did not progress into the Oxford University team after the freshman match of 1895, he did however make his debut for Wiltshire in minor counties cricket in the same year.
[3] After serving in the First World War with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Stevens fell on hard times.
Living in Camberley, his employment with the London Stock Exchange had ceased and he was surviving from his war pension.
His wife had also been admitted to a mental asylum and Stevens was suffering from a heart condition.
[2] In his last days he had begun drinking heavily, making wild statements and threatening suicide.