Rattray Head Lighthouse and sand dunes in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It has been written as background reading for Odyssey Travellers Scotland’s West Coast small group tour, during which we visit several of the Stevensons’ lighthouses. Much of the information is sourced from Bella Bathurst’s book The Lighthouse Stevensons, as well as other sources linked to throughout. This article explores the life and achievements of first four of the Lighthouse Stevensons, with a particular focus on the four lighthouses most closely associated with these respective engineers. They, as much as anyone, are responsible for their country’s appearance today. As well as lighthouses, they built harbours, roads, railways, docks, and canals all over Scotland and beyond.
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They were also responsible for a great deal of inventions in both construction and optics, and for an extraordinary series of developments in architecture, design, and mechanics. Robert then had three sons with his wife (and stepsister) Jean Smith – Alan, David, and Thomas – who all became lighthouse engineers in their own right, as did David’s sons Charles and David Alan.Īll four generations of the Lighthouse Stevensons, as they’ve come to be known, were dedicated to the seemingly impossible task of lighting the dark and dangerous seas around Scotland. He began his career in partnership with his stepfather, the lighthouse engineer Thomas Smith, before going on to design and built several major lighthouses and other projects of his own. Robert Stevenson laid the ancestral foundations for the Stevenson family engineers. Between roughly 17, six members of the Stevenson family planned, designed, and built over 150 lighthouses that can still be found along the Scottish coast today. The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS) might have been the most famous of the Stevensons – well known for works such as Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – but he was not the most productive.
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