David Stevenson (engineer)
Scottish lighthouse designer
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| Intro | Scottish lighthouse designer | ||||||
| Places | United Kingdom Scotland | ||||||
| is | Engineer Civil engineer | ||||||
| Work field | Engineering | ||||||
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Biography
David Stevenson FRSE FRSSA (1815 – 1886) was a Scottish lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, and helped found a great dynasty of lighthouse engineering.
Background
The son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and brother of the lighthouse engineers Alan and Thomas Stevenson, between 1854 and 1880 he designed many lighthouses, all with his brother Thomas. In addition he helped Richard Henry Brunton design lighthouses for Japan, inventing a novel method for allowing them to withstand earthquakes. His sons David Alan Stevenson and Charles Alexander Stevenson continued his work after his death, building nearly thirty further lighthouses. His nephew was Robert Louis Stevenson.
Lighthouses designed by David Stevenson
Butt of Lewis
Scurdie Ness
Bass Rock
St Abbs Head
Out Skerries
Ornsay
Rona
Rubha nan Gall Lighthouse
Ushenish
Bressay
Cantick Head
Ruvaal
Holburn
Monach
Auskerry
Stoer Head
Turnberry
Holy Island
Scottish lighthouses constructed by David Stevenson
- Whalsay Skerries (1854)
- Out Skerries (1854)
- Muckle Flugga (1854)
- Davaar (1854)
- Ushenish (1857)
- South Rona (1857)
- Kyleakin (1857)
- Ornsay (1857)
- Sound of Mull (1857)
- Cantick Head (1858)
- Bressay (1858)
- Ruvaal (1859)
- Corran Point (1860)
- Fladda (1860)
- McArthur's Head (1861)
- St Abb's Head (1862)
- Butt of Lewis (1862)
- Holborn Head (1862)
- Monach Islands (1864)
- Skervuile (1865)
- Auskerry (1866)
- Lochindaal (1869)
- Scurdie Ness (1870)
- Stour Head (1870)
- Dubh Artach (1872)
- Turnberry (1873)
- Chicken Rock (1875)
- Lindisfarne (1877, 1880)