David Stevenson (engineer)

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

• 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)

See also

• Richard Henry Brunton

External links

• Eilean Bàn – Kyleakin Lighthouse
• Life of Robert Stevenson: Civil Engineer (1878), by David Stevenson. From Internet Archive.

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Name	Stevenson, David
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Date of birth	1815
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Date of death	1886
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