The Lighthouse Stevensons - Bella Bathurst [137]
Poems Vol 1, Tusitala Edition, 1923.
Further Memories Tusitala Edition, 1923.
Records of a Family of Engineers Tusitala Edition 1924.
The New Lighthouse on the Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire (edited by Roger Swearingen), Silverado Edition, 1995.
Kidnapped Tusitala Edition 1886.
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (Seeley & Co., 1900).
Scott’s Voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht (Edinburgh University Press, 1989).
Memoirs of an Islet (Edinburgh University Press, 1989).
INDEX
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Qualifying terms in brackets after Stevenson names refer to their relationship to Robert Louis Stevenson
Aberbrothock, Abbot of 68
Act of Union (1707) 10, 38
Age of Improvement 111-12
Albert, Prince 40
Alexander, John 252
Anderson, George 23
Anderson, Professor John 35
Ardnamurchan lighthouse 184-5
Argand, Ami 48
Argyll, Duke of 159, 176
Ballad of the Incbcape Rock, The (Southey) 69
Bara 128
Barclay, Charles 205, 206
Bedford, Captain 224
Bell Rock 7, 151, 162
danger and notoriety of 67-8, 68-9
early attempts to construct lighthouse 66-7
early reluctance of Commissioners to build lighthouse 69-70
naming 69
as obstacle to trade 66
plan of reef by Stevenson 99
shipwrecks 68, 69
Bell Rock lighthouse xiii, xvii-xviii, xiv, 66-105, 152, 162, 163, 199
authorisation of construction 77
book on by Stevenson 100, 101, 106-8
building of tower 92-3, 94, 96
conditions and treatment of workmen 82-3, 93-4, 95-6
construction of beacon 85, 88
described by David Stevenson in journal 128
equipment used 82
finishing and lighting of for first time 96-7, 98-9
foundations 85, 88-91, 90-1, 91-3
inspections during winter months 87-8, 91
keepers 97-8, 179, 251
ordeal of weather and sea in constructing 83-5, 91, 94, 95, 96-7
preparatory work 80-1, 81-3
and Rennie 74-5, 76, 77, 79, 86, 87, 91, 93, 99-101
Scott’s visit to 103
see also Stevenson, Robert
Biot, M. 143
Black Deeps 6
Blackstone Banks 6
Board of Northern Lights see NLB
Brebner, Alan 202, 205, 208, 226, 227, 232, 234
Brewster, Dr David 139-41, 142, 143
Brodie, Captain Joseph 66-7
Brown, Bruce 251, 255
Bruce, George 102
Bruce, Robert 159
Campbell, Dr 188-9
Cape Wrath lighthouse 117
Chatillon 138
Chicken Rock lighthouse 251
China 232
cholera 243
Clearances 111, 161, 186
Clyde 7, 8, 10
Coastguard 246, 261, 262
Cochrane, Captain Alexander 66
Cockburn, Lord Henry 38-9, 109, 122
Coffin, Sir Edward Pine 187
Coleridge 215-16
Commissioners see Lighthouse Commissioners
Corduan lighthouse (France) 138
Corrievreckan, Strait of 7, 245
Covent Garden Theatre 48
Cowtrey, John 27
Crimean War 202
Cuningham, Alex 75, 244, 252
Cunningham, Alison (Cummy) 210-11
Customs Consolidation Act (1852) 29
Darling, Andrew 244-5
Darling, Grace 259
Davidson, William 248
de Foix, Louis 138
de Mattos, Katherine (nee Stevenson) 173, 194
Defoe, Daniel 8, 38
Dhu Heartach lighthouse xix, 13, 14, 223-9, 233
authorisation of construction 225
barracks 225-6
building work 227, 228
and keepers 251
ordeal of weather xix, 228-9
petitions for 223-4
preparatory work 226
site and design 224-5
Douglass, James 64
Downie, Murdo 8
Dungeness lighthouse 264
Dunnet Head lighthouse 117
Easton, George 242
Eddystone lighthouse 58-65, 70, 81, 163
Bell Rock lighthouse based on 72, 76
destroyed by Great Storm (1703) 61
rebuilding of Smeaton’s 64-5
Robert Stevenson’s visit to 63-5
Rudyerd’s design and destruction by fire 61-2
Smeaton’s design and construction 62-3
Winstanley’s design and construction 59-60
Edinburgh 10, 38
building of New Town 40-1
Robert Stevenson’s work on xviii, 109-10
Edinburgh Evening Post 141
Education of an Engineer, The (R.L. Stevenson) xiii-xiv, 15
Eilean Glas lighthouse 21
building of road to 186-7
electric lighting