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Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was a pioneering lighthouse
Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or framework designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens or, in older times, from a fire and used as an aid to navigation and to Maritime pilot at sea....
 designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland
Scotland

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, as well as the Stevenson screen
Stevenson screen

A Stevenson screen or instrument shelter is a screen to shield meteorological instruments against Precipitation and direct heat radiation from outside sources, while still allowing air to circulate freely around them....
 used in meteorology
Meteorology

Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting . Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the eighteenth century....
. His designs, celebrated as ground breaking, ushered in a new era of lighthouse creation.
known for his boyish good looks and flamboyant personality, he was a favourite among his male companions.






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Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was a pioneering lighthouse
Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or framework designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens or, in older times, from a fire and used as an aid to navigation and to Maritime pilot at sea....
 designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
, as well as the Stevenson screen
Stevenson screen

A Stevenson screen or instrument shelter is a screen to shield meteorological instruments against Precipitation and direct heat radiation from outside sources, while still allowing air to circulate freely around them....
 used in meteorology
Meteorology

Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting . Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the eighteenth century....
. His designs, celebrated as ground breaking, ushered in a new era of lighthouse creation.

Background

Well known for his boyish good looks and flamboyant personality, he was a favourite among his male companions. As the youngest son of engineer Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson (civil engineer)

Robert Stevenson was a Scottish civil engineer and famed designer and builder of lighthouses....
, and brother of the lighthouse engineers Alan
Alan Stevenson

Alan Stevenson was a lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board.A member of the famous Stevenson family of engineers, eldest son of Robert Stevenson , and brother of David Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson, between 1843 and 1853 he built thirteen lighthouses in and around Scotland....
 and David Stevenson
David Stevenson (engineer)

David Stevenson was a lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, and helped found a great dynasty of lighthouse engineering....
, between 1854 and 1886 he designed many lighthouses, with his brother David, and then with David's son David Alan Stevenson
David Alan Stevenson

David Alan Stevenson was a lighthouse engineer who built twenty six lighthouses in and around Scotland.Born into the famous Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers, son of David Stevenson , brother of Charles Alexander Stevenson, and nephew of Thomas Stevenson, he was educated at Edinburgh University....
. He married Margaret Balfour and their son was the writer Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
, who caused him much disappointment by failing to follow in the engineering of his family.

Thomas Stevenson was a devout and regular attender at St. Stephen's Church in St Stephen's Place, Silvermills
Silvermills

Silvermills once an ancient village, is today part of the Edinburgh New Town.The Water of Leith flows by here, hence the name.Possibly best known for the great tannery, which did much to inhibit the progress of the New Town development....
, at the north end of St Vincent Street, Edinburgh.

He was involved in regrettable efforts to rubbish the inventions of John Richardson Wigham
John Richardson Wigham

This article concerns the Irish-based inventor and lighthouse engineer, not his cousin the shipbuilder John Wigham RichardsonJohn Richardson Wigham was one of the greatest figures in lighthouse engineering....
.

Lighthouses designed by Thomas Stevenson

  • Whalsay Skerries (1854)
  • Out Skerries (1854)
  • Muckle Flugga
    Muckle Flugga

    Muckle Flugga is a small rocky island north of Unst in the Shetland, Scotland. It is often described as the Extreme points of the United Kingdom point of the British Isles, but the smaller islet of Out Stack is actually further north....
     (1854)
  • Davaar (1854)
  • Ushenish (1857)
  • South Rona
    South Rona

    Rona , sometimes called South Rona to distinguish it from North Rona, is a small island in the Scotland Inner Hebrides, north of Raasay and northeast of Isle of Skye....
     (1857)
  • Kyleakin
    Kyleakin

    The village of Kyleakin is situated on the east coast of the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides, opposite the Ordinal directions Scotland mainland town of Kyle of Lochalsh....
     (1857)
  • Ornsay
    Ornsay

    Ornsay is a small tidal island to the east of the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island provides good shelter to a natural harbour which is overlooked by the village of Isleornsay....
     (1857)
  • Sound of Mull (1857)
  • Cantick Head (1858)
  • Bressay
    Bressay

    Bressay is a populated island in the Shetland Islands, Scotland....
     (1858)
  • Ruvaal (1859)
  • Corran Point (1860)
  • Fladda
    Fladda

    Fladda is one of the Slate Islands, off the west coast of Argyll and Bute, Scotland.Fladda is an islet in the Sound of Luing, between Luing and Belnahua....
     (1860)
  • McArthur's Head (1861)
  • St Abb's Head
    St Abb's Head

    St. Abb's Head is a rocky promontory at the village of St. Abbs, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders. It lies on the eastern coast of Scotland, United Kingdom at ...
     (1862)
  • Butt of Lewis
    Butt of Lewis

    The Butt of Lewis is in the area of Ness, Outer Hebrides. It is the northernmost point of the Isle of Lewis. It is the location for an abandoned lighthouse built in the 1860s and designed by David Stevenson ....
     (1862)
  • Holborn Head
    Holborn Head

    Holborn Head is a headlands and bays on the north-facing Atlantic Ocean coast of Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland. The point of Holborn Head is at ....
     (1862)
  • Monach Islands
    Monach Islands

    Not to be confused with Heysker/Hyskeir or HaskeirThe Monach Islands, also known as Heisker , are an island group west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland....
     (1864)
  • Skervuile (1865)
  • Auskerry
    Auskerry

    Auskerry is a small island at the east of the Orkney island group. It lies in the North Sea south of Stronsay and has a lighthouse, completed in 1866....
     (1866)
  • Lochindaal (1869)
  • Scurdie Ness (1870)
  • Stour Head (1870)
  • Dubh Artach
    Dubh Artach

    Dubh Artach is a remote skerry of basalt rock off the west coast of Scotland lying west of Colonsay and south-west of the Ross of Mull.A lighthouse designed by Thomas Stevenson with a tower height of was erected between 1867 and 1872 with a shore station constructed on the isle of Erraid....
     (1872)
  • Turnberry
    Turnberry

    The Westin Turnberry Resort is a golf-centred resort on the Atlantic Coast of Scotland. It is located in South Ayrshire, and comprises three Links golf courses, a golf academy, a star hotel built in 1906, as well as lodge and cottage accommodation....
     (1873)
  • Chicken Rock
    Chicken Rock

    Chicken Rock is the southernmost island administered by the Isle of Man. It lies to the southwest of the Calf of Man about three miles south-west of Spanish Head on the Manx mainland....
     (1875)
  • Lindisfarne
    Lindisfarne

    Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England also known as Holy Island, the name of the civil parish. It has a population of 162 ...
     (1877, 1880)
  • Fidra
    Fidra

    Fidra is an uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth, north-west of North Berwick, on the east coast of Scotland....
     (1885)
  • Oxcar (1886)
  • Ailsa Craig Lighthouse
    Ailsa Craig Lighthouse

    The Ailsa Craig Lighthouse, located on Ailsa Craig, an island in the Firth of Clyde, just offshore from Girvan, South Ayrshire, Scotland, was completed in 1886, the construction being overseen by Thomas Stevenson and David Stevenson ....
     (1886)


See also

  • Richard Henry Brunton
    Richard Henry Brunton

    Richard Henry Brunton FRGS from Scotland was the so-called "Father of Japan lighthouses". Brunton was born in Muchalls, Kincardineshire, Scotland....


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