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Scottish lighthouse designer
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Male
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Birth:
28 April 1807(Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)
Death:
23 December 1865(Portobello, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Family:
Father:
Robert Stevenson
Children:
Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson
Katharine Elizabeth Alan Stevenson de Mattos
The details
Biography
Introduction
Alan Stevenson FRSE MInstCE (1807, Edinburgh – 1865, Portobello, Edinburgh) was a Scottish lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses. Among his notable works is the Skerryvore Lighthouse.
A member of the famous Stevenson family of engineers, eldest son of Robert Stevenson, and brother of David and Thomas Stevenson, between 1843 and 1853 he built thirteen lighthouses in and around Scotland. The writer Robert Louis Stevenson was the son of Thomas and thus the nephew of Alan Stevenson.
He is buried in the Stevenson family plot in New Calton Cemetery with his wife, Margaret Scott Jones.
Lighthouses by Alan Stevenson
- Little Ross (1843)
- Isle of May Low Light (1843)
- Skerryvore (1844)
- Covesea Skerries (1846)
- Chanonry Point (1846)
- Cromarty (1846)
- Cairn Point, Loch Ryan (1847)
- Noss Head (1849)
- Ardnamurchan (1849)
- Sanda (1850)
- Hestan Island (1850)
- Hoy High and Hoy Low, Graemsay (1851)
- Arnish Point (1853)
- Eilean Musdile (Lismore)
Publications
- Biographical Sketch of the Late Robert Stevenson: Civil Engineer, read at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, at the meeting of 17 February 1851. From Google Book Search
- A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction and Illumination of Lighthouses, 1850, from Google Book Search