Tour Scotland Photograph Loch Indaal Lighthouse Port Charlotte Isle of Islay Scotland

Tour Scotland photograph of Loch Indaal lighthouse near Port Charlotte, Islay, Scotland. Loch Indaal Lighthouse was built in 1859 by engineers David and Thomas Stevenson. David Alan Stevenson was born on 21 July 1854 in Edinburgh, the son of David Stevenson and his wife, Elizabeth Mackay. His early years were spent at their home at 8 Forth Street in the eastern section of the New Town in Edinburgh. He was part of the famous Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers. In 1882 he married Miss Roberts. The family resided in Edinburgh. Their daughter Dorothy Emily was born in 1892; she became a best selling author of more than 40 books published under the name D. E. Stevenson. David died at his home, Troquee", in the Kingsknowe area of Edinburgh on 11 April 1938. He is buried in Dean Cemetery.

Thomas Stevenson, born on 22 July 1818, was a pioneering Scottish lighthouse designer and meteorologist, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland. He was youngest son of engineer Robert Stevenson. He married Margaret Isabella " Maggie " Balfour in 1848 and their son was the writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who caused him much disappointment by failing to follow the engineering interests of his family. He died in Edinburgh on 8 May 1887, and is buried in the Stevenson family plot in New Calton Cemetery.



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