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Thomas Stevenson - Definition and Overview

Thomas Stevenson, 1880

Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was a lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland.

The youngest son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and brother of the lighthouse engineers Alan and David Stevenson, between 1854 and 1886 he designed many lighthouses, with his brother David, and then with David's son David Alan Stevenson. His son was Robert Louis Stevenson, who caused him much disappointment by failing to follow in the engineering tradition of his family.

Lighthouses of Thomas Stevenson

  • Whalsay Skerries (1854)
  • Out Skerries (1854)
  • Muckle Flugga (1854)
  • Davaar (1854)
  • Ushenish (1857)
  • South Roma (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 (1864)
  • Skervuile (1865)
  • Auskerry (1866)
  • Lochindaal (1869)
  • Scurdie Ness (1870)
  • Stour Head (1870)
  • Dubh Artach (1872)
  • Turnberry (1873)
  • Chicken Rock (1875)
  • Lindisfarne (1877, 1880)
  • Fidra (1885)
  • Oxcar (1886)
  • Ailsa Craig (1886)
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