who caused him much disappointment by failing to follow the engineering interests of his family. His wife's younger brother, James Melville Balfour (i.e. his brother-in-law), trained under D. & T. Stevenson and then emigrated to New Zealand, where he was first the marine engineer for Otago Province before he appointed Colonial Marine Engineer. Lighthouses designed by Thomas Stevenson Gallery See also Richard Henry Brunton, "father of Japanese lighthouses" John Richardson Wigham, Irish inventor and lighthouse engineer References External links Eilean Bàn – Kyleakin Lighthouse 'Lighthouse Library' of the Northern Lighthouse Board 1818 births 1887 deaths 19th-century Scottish people Lighthouse builders Presidents of the Royal Society of Edinburgh People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish civil engineers Scottish inventors Burials at the New Calton Burial Ground Scottish meteorologists Scottish antiquarians Engineers from Edinburgh Stevenson family (Scotland)