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Robert Stevenson
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Robert Stevenson was Thomas Smith's stepson and he soon became the next engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board. Although he lived under the shadow of the English engineer Smeaton he became one of the greatest Scottish engineers of his age. Stevenson was responsible for the design and implementation of the Bell Rock Lighthouse off Arbroath. In 1807 the Lighthouse construction was begun and was to take four years. The attempt to erect a lighthouse on a reef 12 miles off the coast was one of the heroic engineering feats of the day. The light construction was several times delayed due to bad weather and the fact that workmen could only work on it when the tide was low.
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Robert Stevenson started his football career at Third Lanark in the Scottish League (1892-93). The following season he played in the Scottish Cup semi-final against Celtic. Third Lanark lost 5-3. He moved to London to work for Donald Currie & Company and played for the works team Old Castle Swifts. He ... occasionally turned out for Woolwich Arsenal. In 1895 Arnold Hills, the owner of the Thames Iron Works, decided to establish his own football team.
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Robert Stevenson began a dynasty of known as the 'Lighthouse Stevensons'. Between 1790 and 1940, eight members of the family planned, designed and built 97 lighthouses around the Scottish coast. Robert was father of lighthouse builders Alan (1807-65), David (1815-86) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-87), and grand-father of the author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94). Other grandsons David (1854 - 1938), Charles (1855 - 1950) and great-grandson Alan (1891 - 1971) continued the dynasty.
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Robert Stevenson was born in Glasgow in 1772, the son of Alan Stevenson (a merchant in that city) and Jean Lillie. Alan died of fever in 1794 whilst in the Caribbean West Indies attending to the trading business which he and his brother Hugh ran from Glasgow. This unfortunate situation placed his mother in straitened financial circumstances. Eventually the family moved to Edinburgh where young Robert was enrolled at the High School. During this time, Jean Stevenson, through her church-going activities, had met Thomas Smith, whom she would eventually marry after the death of his 2nd wife.
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