Robert Stevenson was a Scottish civil engineer, and designer and builder of lighthouses. His works include the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Bust of Stevenson by Samuel Joseph, commissioned 19 July 1824 by the Northern Lighthouse Board. Illustration from the Biographical Sketch of the Late Robert Stevenson: Civil Engineer by his son Alan Stevenson, 1851
1 Baxters Place, Edinburgh
Robert Stevenson is remembered on his grandfather's grave in the churchyard of Glasgow Cathedral, though he was buried in Edinburgh
Stevenson's gravestone, New Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh
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Alan Stevenson FRSE MInstCE was a Scottish civil engineer, known for designing and building lighthouses in and around Scotland.
Robert Stevenson (civil engineer)
…should get more credit—Rennie or Stevenson. That contention grew particularly strong as between the two men's sons when they were older - Robert's son Alan Stevenson and John Rennie's son, Sir John Rennie. Samuel Smiles, a popular engineering author of the time, published an account taken from Rennie, which gave…
Skerryvore Lighthouse
Alan Stevenson's grave, New Calton Cemetery