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James Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Holmbury (1873–1926) worked
under Lloyd George for the Ministry of Munitions during the First World
War. He went on to serve on various advisory councils during the 1920s
and his papers at Sussex record the details of Lord Stevenson’s
career between 1921 and 1925. In 1921 he worked as a personal advisor
to Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for the Colonies), but
perhaps his greatest achievement was the management and staging of
the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. His papers were preserved
in his family until 1979 when they were presented to the University
Library by Mrs Pauline Johnstone of Lewes. Her husband, Kenneth Johnstone,
was Stevenson’s stepson.
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