Alan Stevenson
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Alan Stevenson FRSE MInstCE was a Scottish civil engineer, known for designing and building lighthouses in and around Scotland.
Skerryvore Lighthouse
Alan Stevenson's grave, New Calton Cemetery
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped and for the poet
Alan Stevenson
…Robert Stevenson. With his father, and brothers David and Thomas, he was part of a notable family of engineers and lighthouse builders. The writer Robert Louis Stevenson was his nephew. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh. In 1821, he attended the University of Edinburgh to study Latin, Greek and mathematics…
Stevenson in 1893
Daguerreotype portrait of Stevenson as a child
Stevenson's childhood home in Heriot Row
Stevenson at age 7