David Stevenson (engineer)

David Stevenson FRSE FRSSA (1815 – 1886) was a Scottish lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, and helped found a great dynasty of lighthouse engineering.

The son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and brother of the lighthouse engineers Alan and Thomas Stevenson, between 1854 and 1880 he designed many lighthouses, all with his brother Thomas. In addition he helped Richard Henry Brunton design lighthouses for Japan, inventing a novel method for allowing them to withstand earthquakes. His sons David Alan Stevenson and Charles Alexander Stevenson continued his work after his death, building nearly thirty further lighthouses. His nephew was Robert Louis Stevenson.

Butt of Lewis

Scurdie Ness

Bass Rock

St Abbs Head

Out Skerries

Ornsay

Rona

Rubha nan Gall Lighthouse

Ushenish

Bressay

Cantick Head

Ruvaal

Holburn

Monach

Auskerry

Stoer Head

Turnberry

Holy Island

Scottish lighthouses constructed by David Stevenson

• Whalsay Skerries (1854)
• Out Skerries (1854)
• Muckle Flugga (1854)
• Davaar (1854)
• Ushenish (1857)
• South Rona (1857)
• Kyleakin (1857)
• Ornsay (1857)
• Sound of Mull (1857)
• Cantick Head (1858)
• Bressay (1858)
• Ruvaal (1859)
• Corran Point (1860)
• Fladda (1860)
• McArthur's Head (1861)
• St Abb's Head (1862)
• Butt of Lewis (1862)
• Holborn Head (1862)
• Monach Islands (1864)
• Skervuile (1865)
• Auskerry (1866)
• Lochindaal (1869)
• Scurdie Ness (1870)
• Stour Head (1870)
• Dubh Artach (1872)
• Turnberry (1873)
• Chicken Rock (1875)
• Lindisfarne (1877, 1880)