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The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson

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Which poses the question: why do you want to read this? You bought this, and that book about sheep (Counting Sheep, more to follow) is this a mid life crisis?

In 1797 Robert was appointed engineer to the Lighthouse Board and two years later married his stepsister Jean, Thomas Smith’s eldest daughter by an earlier marriage. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 29 January 2017. The year of 1810 started badly for Robert, losing first his twins and then his youngest daughter to whooping cough. His lighthouse however was nearing completion, and was now attracting many tourists anxious to gaze upon the world’s tallest off-shore lighthouse. The 24 great lanterns that topped the granite stone structure were lit for the first time on 1st February 1811 …one of the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. Stevenson College, Edinburgh, named after Robert Stevenson, was founded in 1970. For a good portion of his life, Stevenson lived at 1 Baxter's Place, Edinburgh. In 1985, the building was named “Robert Stevenson House” in his memory. (The name was removed in 2015 because Marriott bought the building to convert it to a hotel.) Rennie had never actually built a lighthouse, but the Board was so impressed by his record that he was given the job of chief engineer. Robert Stevenson was to work as his resident engineer.

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Stevenson served as an apprentice civil engineer to his stepfather, Thomas Smith. He was so successful at it that, at age 19, he was given responsibility for supervising the erection of a lighthouse on Little Cumbrae island in the River Clyde. His next project was overseeing the building of lighthouses on Orkney. While working on these projects, he continued his civil engineering studies: He diligently practised surveying and architectural drawing, and attended maths and physics lectures at the Andersonian Institute in Glasgow. Here is the story of a family who does not seem as if they could exist in our modern world of short attention spans. Here is a family of engineers who spanned four generations and produced a children's story author, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tusitala, the teller of tales. The light on my island was and is Start Point light on the island of Sanday. It was built in Robert Louis's time as an apprentice in the family business: 1806. In 1797, he was appointed engineer to the Lighthouse Board, succeeding to his stepfather's place there. In 1799, he married Smith's eldest daughter Jean, who was also his stepsister, and, in 1800, Smith made him his business partner.

Plan showing alterations to the River Oich at Loch Oich to construct the Caledonian Canal (1853). MS.5846, 20 Bella Bathurst (born in 1969 in London) [1] is an English writer, photojournalist, and furniture maker. Her novel The Lighthouse Stevensons won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award. [2] [3] Biography [ edit ]The relationship between the family and lighthouse engineering began with RLS’s grandfather, Robert Stevenson (1772-1850), whose mother Jean Lillie (1751-1820) married Thomas Smith (1753-1815), an engineer at the Northern Lighthouse Board. Though Robert’s mother initially hoped that he would become a minister, he ultimately followed in his step-father’s footsteps and was employed as an assistant to the engineer. In 1791, Robert supervised the building of the Clyde Lighthouse in the River Clyde.

During his term as chief of the Northern Lighthouse Board, Alan Stevenson built 13 lighthouses in and around Scotland between 1843 and 1853, and over the course of his life designed over 30 in total. One of his most notable builds is the Skerryvore Lighthouse. The majority of their work on civic buildings relates to building work in Edinburgh and dates form the first half of the nineteenth century. During this period, Edinburgh was undergoing significant infrastructural change associated with the construction of the New Town in the eighteenth century. Robert Stevenson was involved with various projects in the city centre, including the remodelling of the approach to Princes Street from the East around Calton Hill and the construction of the Melville Monument in St. Andrew Square in 1823. Robert Stevenson was born in Glasgow. [3] His father was Alan Stevenson, a partner in a West Indies sugar trading house in the city. Alan died of an epidemic fever on the island of St. Christopher in the West Indies on 26 May 1774, a few days before Robert's second birthday. Robert's uncle died of the same disease around the same time. Since this left Alan's widow, Jean Lillie Stevenson, in much-reduced financial circumstances, Robert was educated, as a young child, at a charity school. Stevenson died on 12 July 1850, at 1 Baxters Place in Edinburgh. He is buried in the Stevenson family plot in the New Calton Burial Ground.

Kim, Stefani (2017-12-15). "Greystone Books to Publish 'Sound,' a Story of 'Silence and Noise,' by Bella Bathurst". The Hearing Review . Retrieved 2023-02-10. Dioptic lens designed by David A. Stevenson in 1899 for the Inchkeith Lighthouse. It remained in use until 1985 when the last lighthouse keeper was withdrawn and the light was automated. The water supply works material varies in scale from citywide plans describing drainage to detailed plans for the construction of specific reservoirs. Each project tends to have only a small number of plans rather than an ongoing series of improvements and alterations as is often the case for river and harbour works. Nevertheless these plans may be useful for those interested in the history and development of particular towns or cities or in the history of water supply, public health and the urban experience in nineteenth-century Scotland. Growing up under the gleam of the Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, and now living in Shetland, author Donald S Murray describes lighthouses as being a ‘sacred place’ for him. Reflecting in the book, Donald says: “This book is a reminder of those members of the Stevenson family who did so much to ensure the construction of these towers on islands, peninsulas and the coastline’s edge in both Scotland and the Isle of Man – many of which still stand today… but mainly, this book is a love-letter to lighthouses, a paean of praise to their fidelity and continual presence in my life.” Reconstruction work on the lighthouse commenced in 1956 and was completed in 1959 when the light was made electric. It is now a self-generating station, power being produced by 3 diesel generators, any one of which is able to carry the full station load.

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