Alan Stevenson

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Alan Stevenson
Born	1807 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	1865 Portobello, Edinburgh
Alma mater	Edinburgh University
Occupation	Lighthouse engineer
Employer	Northern Lighthouse Board
Children	Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson
Parents	Robert Stevenson (father)
Relatives	David Stevenson (brother) Thomas Stevenson (brother)

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.^[1]

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.

Lighthouses by Alan Stevenson

Little Ross (1843)
Skerryvore (1844)
Covesea Skerries (1846)
Chanonry Point (1846)
Cromarty (1846)
Cairn Point (1847)
Loch Ryan (1847)
Noss Head (1849)
Ardnamurchan Point (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

References

↑ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Retrieved 31 December 2010.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 69713101 LCCN: no89016205 GND: 117658529

Persondata
Name	Stevenson, Alan
Alternative names
Short description	British lighthouse builder
Date of birth	1807
Place of birth
Date of death	1865
Place of death

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