a Carlton or Crustaceans team (though an injury precluded Larwood’s visit). Stevenson’s friendship with spin bowler S.F. Barnes brought huge crowds to Carlton’s ground to watch the latter. Yet another element was Stevenson’s attention, when Club Secretary, to promoting enjoyment and conviviality among spectators and players alike. In the 1920s he successfully utilised sets of welcoming stewards and free refreshments along with free entry to matches to draw people to watch cricket – the “Tea Offensive” he called it. Stevenson organised a series of imaginative “Grand Fancy Fair and Carnival” events to raise funds to buy Carlton’s leafy, much-admired cricket ground in Grange, Edinburgh with its view of Edinburgh’s landmark hill, Arthur’s Seat. “Cricket with trimmings” was one newspaper’s epithet for the pleasant cricket-watching ambience which he promoted. During his annual cricket tours in the Scottish Highlands, Stevenson would systematically promote exuberant excursions for his team and their entourage. In between matches, they would climb mountains and picnic beside celebrated lochs and waterfalls – “as much sight-seeing as possible”, he wrote. A contemporary illustrated description of the 1927 Northern Tour and Stevenson’s characteristic Scottish style of joie de vivre is preserved on the Carlton Club website. The latter’s ‘Tales from the Archives’ section includes anecdotes and photographs featuring Norman Lang Stevenson. Personal life Norman Lang Stevenson married Ethel Crawford in 1905. Together they reared a family of seven children – six girls and one boy – at 7 Strathearn Road in Grange, Edinburgh. Later they moved to 7 Alva Street, Edinburgh where Stevenson’s dental surgeries were already located. He died on 21 August 1967 and is buried in Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh. Further reading Stevenson, N.L. (1946) ‘Play’ The story of the Carlton Cricket Club and a personal record of over 50 years’ Scottish cricket. Edinburgh: C.J Cousland & Sons References External links 1875 births 1967 deaths British male field hockey players Scottish male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players of Great Britain Field hockey players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Scottish Olympic medallists