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He was born at 2 Baxters Place in Edinburgh, on 22 July 1818, the youngest son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and his wife (and step-sister) Jean Smith. He was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh. Thomas Stevenson was a devout and regular attendee at St. Stephen's Church in Stockbridge, at the north end of St Vincent Street, Edinburgh.
Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife, Margaret Isabella (born Balfour, 1829–1897). He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, he changed the spelling of "Lewis" to "Louis", and he dropped "Balfour ...
Seaman second class. Adlai Ewing Stevenson II ( / ˈædleɪ /; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st governor of Illinois from 1949 to 1953 and was the Democratic nominee for ...
Robert Louis Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, on 13 November 1850, the only son of Thomas Stevenson, a lighthouse engineer, and his wife, Margaret Isabella Balfour, who was the daughter of Lewis Balfour, a minister of the Church of Scotland. He was named Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, but changed the spelling of his second ...
- Margaret Isabella Balfour
- Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (1868-1947)
Mar 23, 2022 · During his term as chief of the Northern Lighthouse Board, Alan Stevenson built 13 lighthouses in and around Scotland between 1843 and 1853, and over the course of his life designed over 30 in total. One of his most notable builds is the Skerryvore Lighthouse. Thomas Stevenson was both a lighthouse designer and meteorologist who designed over ...
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Family. Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson. Thomas Stevenson (father) Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson (mother) Lloyd Osbourne. Isobel Osbourne (step-daughter) Austin Strong (step-grandson) The Lighthouse Stevensons. Robert Stevenson (grandfather) Alan Stevenson (uncle) David Stevenson (uncle) David Alan Stevenson (cousin)
Robert Louis Stevenson. British essayist, novelist and poet, the only child of Thomas Stevenson, civil engineer, and his wife, Margaret Isabella Balfour. He was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, on the 13th of November 1850. He suffered from infancy from great fragility of health, and nearly died in 1858 of gastric fever, which left much ...
- November 13, 1850
- December 3, 1894
