Painter, born in Newton Heath, Manchester, studying at St Augustines, a local school. From age of 14 worked as a designer with a Manchester firm, living for some years at Stretford, studying privately as a painter. From 1939–46 served in the Cheshire Regiment. He was a member of the Society of Modern Painters, showed in the Manchester region; elsewhere in the provinces; in London including Tate Gallery; and at Museum of Modern Art in New York. Had solo exhibitions in Nottingham, Liverpool and Manchester, at Gibb’s Bookshop. Manchester City Art Gallery holds his stylised oil, Kite in the Sea, 1949. Stevens lived latterly at Lyndhurst, Hampshire.