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	Thomas Stevenson - Definition, explanation
		Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was a lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology.
		The youngest son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and brother of the lighthouse engineers Alan and David Stevenson, between 1854 and 1886 he designed many lighthouses, with his brother David, and then with David's son David Alan Stevenson.
		His son was Robert Louis Stevenson, who caused him much disappointment by failing to follow in the engineering tradition of his family.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/th/thomas_stevenson.php (113 words)

	Thomas Stevenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was a lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology.
		The youngest son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and brother of the lighthouse engineers Alan and David Stevenson, between 1854 and 1886 he designed many lighthouses, with his brother David, and then with David's son David Alan Stevenson.
		His son was the writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who caused him much disappointment by failing to follow in the engineering tradition of his family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Stevenson (144 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Kidnapped \| Robert Louis Stevenson
		Stevenson was an atheist and free spirit whose Bohemian lifestyle brought him in contact with troubadours and misfits, who provided inspiration for many of his characters.
		His father, Thomas Stevenson, belonged to a family of engineers who had built many of the deep-sea lighthouses around the rocky coast of Scotland.
		For Stevenson, it should have been a time to enjoy his paradise idyll, but, in 1894, he died, ironically from a brain hemorrhage rather than the lung problems which had beset him throughout his life.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/kidnapped/stevenson.html (938 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson
		He was the only son of Thomas Stevenson, a prosperous joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses, and Margaret Balfour, daughter of a Scottish clergyman.
		Stevenson changed to law and in 1875 he was called to the Scottish bar.
		Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage on December 3, 1894, in Vailima.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /rlsteven.htm (2375 words)

	Bellrock.org.uk : Stevensons : Thomas Stevenson 1818-1887
		Even if Thomas (youngest of the three brothers to be lighthouse builders) is remembered for little else, he will best be known as the father of his famous and only son, Robert Louis.
		Thomas, unlike his older brother David, appeared to have little ambition for any serious profession.
		It was also Thomas who first visited Dubh Artach (a lonely rock situated to the south-west of Mull) in 1864 and decided that a lighthouse should be built there.
	www.bellrock.org.uk /stevensons/stevenson_thomas.htm (380 words)

	robert louis stevenson, robert louis stevenson biography, treasure island, robert louis stevenson poem, robert louis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Stevenson was born in Edinburgh as the son of Thomas Stevenson, joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses.
		Since his childhood Stevenson suffered from tuberculosis and as an adult there were times when he could not wear a jacket for fear of bringing on a haemorrhage of the lung.
		Stevenson saw that the novel is a selection of and reorganization of certain aspects of life - "life is monstrous, infinite, illogical, abrupt and poignant; a work of art, in comparison, is neat, finite, self-contained, rational, flowing and emasculate."
	www.eliterature.com.ar /stevenson_robert_louis/index.htm (633 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson - Books and Biography
		He was the only son of Thomas Stevenson, a prosperous joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses, and Margaret Balfour, daughter of a Scottish clergyman.
		Stevenson changed to law and in 1875 he was called to the Scottish bar.
		Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage on December 3, 1894, in Vailima.
	www.readprint.com /author-76/Robert-Louis-Stevenson (1674 words)

	Bellrock.org.uk : Stevensons : Thomas Stevenson 1818-1887 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Even if Thomas (youngest of the three brothers to be lighthouse builders) is remembered for little else, he will best be known as the father of his famous and only son, Robert Louis.
		By 1839 he had matured considerably; he already knew about Fresnel lamps and was already taking an interest in all aspects of lighthouse building, so much so that in 1843 Alan put him in charge of the works at Skerryvore.
		It was also Thomas who first visited Dubh Artach (a lonely rock situated to the south-west of Mull) in 1864 and decided that a lighthouse should be built there.
	bellrock.org.uk /stevensons/stevenson_thomas.htm (380 words)

	Stevenson named president of Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Stevenson was president of the California Society of Plastic Surgeons from 2000–01.
		In addition, Stevenson is a member of the California Medical Association, California Society of Plastic Surgeons, Pacific Coast Surgical Association, Sacramento Society of Plastic Surgeons, Sacramento-El Dorado Medical Society, and UC Davis Surgical Association.
		Stevenson received his medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, completed his general surgery residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and served his plastic surgery residency at Emory University in Atlanta.
	www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu /update/Archives/nov_5_04/stevenson.html (383 words)

	Stevenson Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Thomas had previously hypothesised as to how his lamps could be applied to the current lighthouses that ran on coal fires.
		Thomas took him on as a partner in 1800 and Robert was generally responsible for all lighthouse work from then on.
		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!
	portfolio.mvm.ed.ac.uk /studentwebs/session3/46/stevenson_family.htm (1689 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson: Champion of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Robert Louis Stevenson was born November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland to Margaret and Thomas Stevenson.
		Fanny Stevenson noted of her husband: "While he could see no royal road for others, the path for himself showed plainly enough before him, and it was his duty to swerve neither to the right nor the left.
		Stevenson's book, The Ebb--Tide, is a fictionalized account of the beach-combing scene; but, the major point RLS makes in The Ebb-Tide - that the end of the line or rope eventually greets those who duck honest work - falls in the non-fiction category.
	www.libertyhaven.com /thinkers/robertlouisstevenson/robert.html (2947 words)

	Beers: Stevenson p. 636
		THOMAS STEVENSON, who in his day was one of the prominent and progressive agriculturists of Washington county, was born June 30, 1798, in Northampton county, Penn., on the old home farm near Easton.
		James Stevenson, his father, was a native of the North of Ireland, where he married Ann Miller, and soon thereafter they immigrated to America, and about the year 1786 settled near Easton, Northampton Co., Penn, where they resided till 1800.
		Thomas Stevenson, the subject proper of this memoir, came with his parents to Washington county when a boy, and here received his education in the schools of the period, where the "Single Rule of Three" was the test of mathematical knowledge.
	www.chartiers.com /beers-project/articles/stevenson-636.html (847 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)

	Robert Louis Stevenson Biography
		Thomas Stevenson was quite a storyteller himself, and his wife doted on their only child, sitting in admiration while her precocious son expounded on religious dogma.
		Thomas Stevenson insisted that the young man study law, and his son stuck to the bargain long enough to receive, in 1875, a law degree he barely used.
		Stevenson maintained that his art, his life, and his mode of creation were all in some part derivative of the highly exaggerated and romantic world that he had inherited from Skelt's toy.
	people.brandeis.edu /~teuber/stevensonbio.html (6414 words)

	Index to Titles. Bartleby.com
		A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
		The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis.
		The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter’s Tale, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
	www.bartleby.com /titles (1154 words)

	Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson: Poet, Essayist, and Novelist (1850-94)
		Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		His father was Thomas Stevenson, joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses, and his grandfather Robert Stevenson, a gifted engineer remembered in his native Scotland as the designer of twenty-three lighthouses and the inventor of intermittent or flashing lights for such navigational aids.
		Stevenson's name became a household word throughout Europe and America when in 1883 he published the best-selling adventure/bildungsroman The Sea Cook: or, Treasure Island by 'Captain George North' (serialised in Young Folks from October 1881 through January 1882), which he had originally intended for the entertainment of Fanny's son, Lloyd.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/stevenson/bio.html (879 words)

	Stevenson Family Page
		Jesse Horace Stevenson was born on December 29, 1920 in Sweetwater, Texas.
		Thomas Stevenson was a carpenter who, during the Depression, sought to care for his family by looking for various sorts of work.
		Thomas flew the B-36 in the United States Air Force and Henry Forrest served as an Air Force navigator.
	www.angelfire.com /nt/theology/stevenson/jesse.html (1756 words)

	Stevenson, Samuel
		Stevenson were born in County Armagh, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1825, settling in Philadelphia, where they lived until 1838.
		Stevenson was married to Mary Lucretia Starr, the daughter of Thomas and Susan (Ramsey) Starr, of Wellsville.
		Mary Lucretia (Starr) Stevenson died in 1860, and on Oct. 1, 1863, Samuel Stevenson was married to Mary A. Ramsey, the daughter of John and Keziah (Hamilton) Ramsey.
	www.historicpa.net /bios/2s/samuel-stevenson.html (943 words)

	Anne's Catalogue
		Ambrose was mentioned in his uncle Ambrose Stevenson’s will of 1679, implying that he was the son of one of Ambrose’s brothers: John, Edward, Thomas, or Richard.
		It may be that Stevenson relatives from County Durham had moved to Yorkshire, and he was sent to be near them.
		Thomas was born February 25, 1787 in Smyrna (then called Duck Creek Crossroads), Delaware, and died in 1865.
	members.tripod.com /~mjpg00/Stevenson.html (2355 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson
		Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh as the son of Thomas Stevenson, a prosperous joint-engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses.
		Stevenson's grandfather was Britain's greatest builder of lighthouses.
		Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage on December 3, 1894, in Vailima, Samoa.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.30 (1014 words)

	Thomas Stevenson - Civil Engineer
		The death of Thomas Stevenson will mean not very much to the general reader.
		Stevenson the author, because his works were much esteemed in Peru?" My friend supposed the reference was to the writer of tales; but the Peruvian had never heard of DR. JEKYLL; what he had in his eye, what was esteemed in Peru, where the volumes of the engineer.
		But the life-work of Thomas Stevenson remains; what we have lost, what we now rather try to recall, is the friend and companion.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /thomas-stevenson.htm (1087 words)

	Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894: Island 1 - Early Life in Edinburgh
		Stevenson's birthplace, Howard Place was on the outskirts of Edinburgh's New Town, a collection of parallel and perpendicular streets that exemplified neoclassical social planning.
		Stevenson's father, Thomas (1818-1887), was a prominent Edinburgh civil engineer, specializing in the development of new light apparatuses for Scotland's many lighthouses.
		Stevenson was originally intended to follow in his father's and grandfather's footsteps and trained at Edinburgh University to become an engineer.
	www.sc.edu /library/spcoll/britlit/rls/rls1.html (1173 words)

	Classic Authors: Robert Louis Stevenson
		Robert was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and given the name Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, which he later changed to simply Robert Louis Stevenson.
		His father, Thomas Stevenson, came from a family of engineers who had erected many of the lighthouses on Scotland's rocky shore.
		Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in many genres, but he is probably most famous for his tales of adventure and suspense.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_literature/57113 (481 words)

	Wikinfo \| Thomas S. Drew
		Thomas Stevenson Drew (25 August 1802 - January 1879) was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas.
		Thomas Stevenson Drew was born on 25 August 1802 in Wilson County, Tennessee.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Thomas_Stevenson_Drew (250 words)

	About Us - Welcome to Brent Stevenson Memorial and monumental masons
		Brent and James Stevenson, the fifth and sixth generations of Blackburn-based Brent Stevenson Memorials are this year celebrating 120 years of their family business.
		Thomas passed it to son Fred in 1904, then his son Harold took over in 1926.
		Stone carving skills have been passed from father to son and Brent and James Stevenson are th fifth and sixth generation of memorial masons.
	www.brentstevensonmemorials.co.uk /about_us.htm (513 words)

	ashgroveaudiobook.com - Robert Louis Stevenson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, to Thomas Stevenson and Maggie Balfour (the origination of his idea for David Balfour from Kidnapped).
		Thomas had perfected the lights in the lighthouses with his vast knowledge of optics.
		Robert Louis Stevenson died a quiet death on December 3, 1894, at 8:10 P.M. His family was with him in his final moments.
	www.ashgroveaudiobook.com /grove/info_kids_stevenson.html (1149 words)

	Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In University of Kansas records, it shows Mary Stevenson Thomas was admitted to the University of Kansas on October 24, 1908, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree on June 7, 1916.
		Thomas was apparently a part-time student, she was unable to be located among students who appear in yearbooks of the University issued from 1908 through 1917.
		Thomas was survived by a number of nieces and nephews.
	www.public.asu.edu /~aajth/history/thomas~m/m.s.thomas.html (955 words)

	John and Martha (Warwick) Stevenson
		John Stevenson was married to Martha Warwick and settled in the Augusta County region of Virginia.
		Charles Thomas Stevenson of Quincy, OH born 2 Dec 1870 has an old Bible belonging to his father and records of the family of Thomas are also contained in it.
		In the search for my own branch of the Stevenson family, it was my good fortune to be come acquainted with some of the members of this family, and to be able to untangle some of the relationships which had been confused by some lack of earlier records.
	www.jspub.com /genealogy/john&marthawarwickstevenson.html (5428 words)

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