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	Robert Stevenson (lighthouse engineer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Stevenson (8 June 1772–1850) was a Scottish lighthouse engineer and stepson of Thomas Smith, also a lighthouse engineer.
		Robert Louis Stevenson was the son of Thomas.
		Stevenson College, Edinburgh was founded in 1970, and was named after Robert Stevenson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Stevenson_(lighthouse_engineer) (164 words)

	Robert Stevenson - LoveToKnow Watches
		ROBERT STEVENSON (1772-1850), Scottish engineer, was the only son of Alan Stevenson, partner in a West Indian house in Glasgow, and was born in that city on the 8th of June 1772.
		Stevenson published an Account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse in 1824, and, besides contributing important articles on engineering subjects to Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, was the author of various papers read before learned societies.
		The most noteworthy lighthouse designed by him is Skerryvore on the west coast of Scotland, an isolated tower of which the first stone was laid in 1840 and which first showed its light in 1843.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Stevenson (626 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Robert Louis Stevenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Thomas Stevenson and grandson of Robert Stevenson, both successful lighthouse engineers, and Margaret Balfour.
		Robert gave up the religion of his parents while studying at Edinburgh University, but the teaching that he received as a child continued to influence him.
		Stevenson died of a brain (cerebral) haemorrhage in Vailima in Samoa, aged 44.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Robert_Louis_Stevenson (2735 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson
		Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (born November 13, 1850, died December 3, 1894), novelist, poet, travel writer, born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		As a son of the famous lighthouse-building family, he began as an engineer (his lighthouse designs were much praised), but turned to law because his health was poor, though he never practiced.
		Stevenson's novels of adventure, romance, and horror are of considerable psychological depth and have continued in popularity long after his death, both as books and as films.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Robert_Louis_Stevenson.html (564 words)

	Robert Stevenson, Engineer
		Robert Stevenson was born in Glasgow in 1772, the son of Alan Stevenson (a merchant in that city) and Jean Lillie.
		Robert worked hard to qualify himself as an civil engineer, and even as early as 1793 he was known to have been entrusted, at least in part, to the building of the lighthouse on Little Cumbrae on the Frith of Clyde.
		Robert died in 1850 (his wife had died in 1846) and both lie in New Calton Cemetery in Edinburgh with their family, many of whom died in infancy.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /robert-stevenson.htm (314 words)

	Robert Stevenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Stevenson (lighthouse engineer) (1772–1850), Scottish lighthouse engineer
		Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish writer and grandson of the lighthouse engineer Robert Stevenson
		Robert Stevenson (footballer), captain of Woolwich Arsenal and Thames Ironworks F.C. in late 19th Century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Stevenson (139 words)

	Stevenson Family
		Robert's greatest lighthouse achievement was the construction of the lighthouse at Bell Rock, there was much controversy as to the degree of individual involvement between himself and John Rennie.
		Robert was also appointed as the chief executive of the Northern Lighthouse Board from 1808 until 1843, during this period he was responsible for the construction and design of at least 23 lighthouses on the Scottish Coastline.
		Robert Stevenson was married to Jean Stevenson in 1799, Jean was the beloved daughter of Thomas Smith, thus upon marrying her Robert became not Thomas's son-in-law as well as his stepson!
	www.portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk /studentwebs/session3/46/stevenson_family.htm (1689 words)

	Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, the son of Thomas Stevenson, a lighthouse engineer.
		Stevenson suffered from a chronic bronchial condition and spent much of his life travelling abroad in search of climates which would benefit his health.
		Stevenson recorded these experiences in In the South Seas (1896) and his defence of the controversial Belgian priest who cared for the lepers of Molokai in Father Damien (1890).
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761567727___1/Stevenson_Robert_Louis_Balfour.html (322 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13 1850 - December 3 1894) was a novelist poet and travel writer.
		Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson Edinburgh Scotland the son of Thomas Stevenson a engineer and Margaret Balfour.
		Stevenson's novels of adventure romance and horror are considerable psychological depth and have continued in long after his death both as books as films.
	www.freeglossary.com /Robert_Louis_Stevenson (1141 words)

	Robert Stevenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Scottish engineer, the only son of Alan Stevenson, partner in a West Indian house in Glasgow, and was born in that city on the 8th of June 1772.
		As a civil engineer he improved the approaches to Edinburgh, including that by the Calton Hill, constructed harbors, docks and breakwaters, improved river and canal navigation, and constructed several important bridges.
		In consequence of observations made by him George Stephenson advocated the use of malleable- instead of cast-iron rails for railways, and he was the inventor of the movable jib and balance cranes.
	www.nndb.com /people/111/000097817 (297 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography. (book reviews) - Commonweal - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The son of an eminent lighthouse engineer, Stevenson was an only child who remained financially dependent upon his father throughout his life.
		In 1888 Stevenson took advantage of this freedom to remove his extended family to the Pacific, where he settled (in Samoa) enjoying somewhat better health until he died of a brain hemorrhage.
		When we learn that Stevenson, rebuffed by his first love Fanny Sitwell, "simply converted her from a potential mistress into a mother figure," we await with bated breath "the transmogrification of Fanny from object of desire to sacred mother object." Stevenson deserves better than this.
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	Stevenson, Robert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Robert Stevenson began a dynasty of known as the 'Lighthouse Stevensons'.
		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).
		Stevenson was also involved in canal building, harbour and railway construction and suggested the use in railways of flanged wheels and flexible rails (as against the brittle cast-iron ones used previously).
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/biographies/mainbiographies/s/stevenson/1.html (252 words)

	Introductory Note. Robert Louis Stevenson. 1909-14. Essays: English and American. The Harvard Classics
		(1850–94), novelist, essayist, and poet, was descended from a famous family of lighthouse builders.
		He was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, and was intended for the ancestral profession of engineer.
		Stevenson began his career with the writing of essays, then issued two charming volumes of humorous and contemplative travel, “An Inland Voyage” and “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes”; then collected in his “New Arabian Nights” a number of fanciful short stories he had been publishing in a magazine.
	www.bartleby.com /28/1008.html (345 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Robert Louis Stevenson
		Stevenson almost followed his father’s example, studying engineering at Edinburgh University, but at twenty-one decided to become a writer.
		Stevenson flouted convention, rejecting the hypocrisies of Calvinist Scotland, preferring a bohemian lifestyle in France where he met his future wife, Fanny Osbourne, an American divorcee, ten year his senior.
		It was in Samoa that Stevenson was to write Catriona (1893), an unfinished sequel to Kidnapped and Weir of Hermiston (1896, also unfinished) which he was writing when he died in 1894 at the height of his literary power.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/robert_louis_stevenson (461 words)

	Robert Stevenson (lighthouse engineer) - WikiGadugi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Robert Stevenson (8 dehaluyi 1772–1850) tsinusdvgi ganela atsvsdv atsilv dihilegi ale stepson Thomas atsinvsidasdi, nasgi nasque atsvsdv atsilv dihilegi.
		Stevenson adanetliyvsdi unaligohi hawinaditlv atsinvsidasdi utseli digalvwisdanedi hawinaditlv 1800.
		Stevenson ayehv tsoi tsuwetsi gago nigadv adanetliyvsdi atsilv dihilegi: David, Alan, ale Thomas.
	chrp.wikigadugi.org /wiki/Robert_Stevenson_(lighthouse_engineer) (141 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson
		Stevenson made no attempt to practice at the bar, and the next years were spent in wanderings in France, Germany and Scotland.
		His body was carried next day by sixty sturdy Samoans, who acknowledged Stevenson as their chief, to the summit of the precipitous peak of Vaea, where he had wished to be buried, and where they left him to rest for ever with the Pacific Ocean at his feet.
		The charm of the personal character of Stevenson and the romantic vicissitudes of his life are so predominant in the minds of all who knew him, or lived within earshot of his legend, that they made the ultimate position which he will take in the history of English literature somewhat difficult to decide.
	www.nndb.com /people/839/000031746 (2715 words)

	Life - Robert Louis Stevenson
		Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850-December 3, 1894), was a novelist, poet, and travel writer.
		Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Thomas Stevenson, a successful engineer, and Margaret Balfour.
		Robert gave up the religion of his parents whilst at studying at Edinburgh University, but the teaching that he received as a child continued to influence him.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Aberdonia4407/robert-louis-stevenson-life.html (389 words)

	Wikinfo \| Robert Louis Stevenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (born November 13, 1850, died December 3, 1894), was a novelist, poet, and travel writer.
		Robert gave up the religion of his parents while in his university years, but the teaching that he received as a child continued to influence him.
		Stevenson died of a brain haemorage in Vailima in Samoa, aged 44.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Robert_Louis_Stevenson (669 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson on stamps of Marshall Islands 1988
		Stevenson didn't know it yet, but he had come home: within weeks the Stevensons had purchased 314.5 acres on the side of Mt. Vaea overlooking Apia Harbor, and arranged for a house (Vailima) to be built.
		Stevenson so embraced the warm-hearted Samoan people that he tried to use his influence to rid the government of corrupt Western influences, and he was almost expelled by the Tripartate commissioners.
		This special Stevenson tribute by the Republic of the Marshall Islands was researched and designed by William R. Hanson, who also designed the cachet for the official FDC and wrote and illustrated this panel.
	www.trussel.com /rls/rlsmar.htm (1240 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson Biography
		Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850- 1894) was born on November 13, 1850 to well-to do parents in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		Stevenson was unhappy with the book, for he felt that he was forced to end too soon.
		Stevenson was buried on a Samoan mountaintop, and on his tomb is engraved his poem "Requiem," the epitaph he had written for himself years before his death.
	www.angelfire.com /hi3/biographies/rls.html (865 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson
		Stevenson’s novels are famed for their adventure, psychological content and intrigue.
		In 1867 Stevenson enrolled at Edinburgh University to study engineering, but his continual ill health lead him to become a lawyer and in 1875 he was called to the Scottish Bar.
		Stevenson’s "Silverado Squatters" (1883) is an account of their three-week honeymoon at an abandoned silver mine in California.
	www.tartan.tv /Web/Site/NewSite/Directory/famousscots/Robbie.asp (334 words)

	Northern Lighthouse Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Robert Stevenson was born on 8 June 1772 in Glasgow and died on 12 July 1850.
		The first mention of Robert Stevenson in connection with the Northern Lighthouse Board was when Thomas Smith, the Engineer, in 1794, entrusted Robert Stevenson with the Superintendence of the erection of Pentland Skerries Lighthouse.
		Robert Stevenson's fame was not confined only to Lighthouses, as among other things he was responsible for the design of London and Regent Roads in Edinburgh, the Hutcheson Bridge in Glasgow, railway lines etc, etc.
	www.nlb.org.uk /historical/stevenson.htm (299 words)

	Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Stevenson's modern reputation rests on his fiction, most of which has remained in print since publication.
		Stevenson's eclectic journalism, literary reviews, and biographical essays were collected in Virginibus Peurisque (1881), Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882), and Memories and Portraits (1887).
		Much of Stevenson's poetry registers his preoccupation with the relationship between sin and innocence, and continually returns to images of the sleeping, ill, or isolated child.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761567727__1/Stevenson_Robert_Louis_Balfour.html (993 words)

	Undiscovered Scotland: Bookshop: Robert Louis Stevenson
		This is a selection of prose and letters by Robert Louis Stevenson which provide a portrait of the South Seas and an account of the writer at the height of his powers.
		Born in mid-19th-century Edinburgh, Robert Louis Stevenson was a dedicated writer of remarkable versatility - novelist, essayist, travel-writer, poet, writer of ballads and fables, brilliant letter-writer and short-story writer of genius.
		Robert Louis Stevenson gave travel writing a good name, as well as bequeathing it one of his best-known observations, "to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive".
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbookshop/usbs-stevenson.html (1072 words)

	Ar Turas - Robert Louis Stevenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on 13
		Robert was frequently ill as a child and spent long periods alone with only his Scots nurse, Alison (whom he called ‘Cummy’), for company.
		In 1881 Stevenson began writing ‘Treasure Island’ which was published in 1883; this book established his reputation but he and Fanny were looking for a place to settle with a kinder, warmer climate than Scotland for Stevenson’s bronchial problems.
	www.ar-turas.co.uk /Pages/writers/Stevenson.htm (454 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived from 1850 to 1894, was a renowned essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books.
		Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on 3 November 1850.
		His father was Thomas Stevenson his grandfather Robert Stevenson, both members of the "Lighthouse Stevensons" the family who between them were responsible for building most of Scotland's lighthouses (and many more beyond these shores).
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbiography/biographies/robertlouisstevenson.html (721 words)

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