Alan Stevenson

Alan Stevenson (1807, Edinburgh – 1865) was a lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses.

A member of the famous Stevenson family of engineers, eldest son of Robert Stevenson, and brother of David and Thomas Stevenson, between 1843 and 1853 he built thirteen lighthouses in and around Scotland. The writer Robert Louis Stevenson was the son of Thomas and thus the nephew of Alan Stevenson.

Lighthouses of Alan Stevenson

* Little Ross (1843)
* Skerryvore (1844)
* Covesea Skerries (1846)
* Chanonry Point (1846)
* Cromarty (1846)
* Cairn Point (1847)
* Loch Ryan (1847)
* Noss Head (1849)
* Ardnamurchan Point (1849)
* Sanda (1850)
* Hestan Island (1850)
* Hoy High and Hoy Low, Graemsay (1851)
* Arnish Point (1853)

Publications

*" [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC04051763&id=YSBGZ7ozsHMC&printsec=titlepage&dq=Biographical+Sketch+of+the+Late+Robert+Stevenson Biographical Sketch of the Late Robert Stevenson: Civil Engineer] ", read at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, at the meeting of 17th February 1851. From Google Book Search
*" [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC06000915&id=SMHonupCh3MC&printsec=titlepage&dq=A+Rudimentary+Treatise+on+the+History,+Construction+and+Illumination+of+Lighthouses A Rudimentary Treatise on the History, Construction and Illumination of Lighthouses] ", 1850, from Google Book Search