Background
He was born on 28 November 1835 at Clerkenwell, London, to Isaac Thomas and Anna (née Morgan) Stevens and was baptised at the Parish Church of Street Luke, London, on 5 June 1836.
He was born on 28 November 1835 at Clerkenwell, London, to Isaac Thomas and Anna (née Morgan) Stevens and was baptised at the Parish Church of Street Luke, London, on 5 June 1836.
Chechemian resigned as primus in 1900 and Stevens succeeded him in that office. In 1881 Stevens married Eliza Elizabeth Galloway at Islington, London. Stevens died on 2 February 1917 in London.
Stevens was an organist and the author of An Essay on the Theory of Music (Gottengen 1863).