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THOMAS STEVENSON'S CHIEF DISTINCTION WAS PROBABLY THE DEVELOPMENT, AND PERFECTING OF THE REVOLVING LIGHT FOR LIGHTHOUSE ILLUMI- NATION. IN HIS SON'S "MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS" HIS CHARACTER IS GRAPHICALLY PORTRAYED ; HIS " BLENDED STERNNESS AND SOFTNESS ... A MAN OF MANY EXTREMES, " WHOSE " INMOST THOUGHTS WERE EVER TINGED WITH CELTIC MELANCHOLY. " THOMAS STEVENSON. MARGARET ISABELLA, THE YOUNGEST OFTHE DAUGH- TERS OF COLINTON MANSE, WAS KNOWN TO THE PARISHIONERS AS "THE MINISTER'S WHITE-HEADED L...ASSIE. " TALL AND GRACEFUL IN FIGURE AND OF A VIVACIOUS AND BRIGHT TEMPERAMENT, R. L. S. HAS DESCRIBED HIS CHILDISH PRIDE AT RECOGNISING HIS MOTHER AS THE PRETTIEST LADY AT THE CHILDREN'S PARTIES TO WHICH SHEACCOMPANIED HIM, AND INTO THE AMUSEMENTS OF WHICH SHE ENTERED WITH AS MUCH ZEST AS THE YOUNG PEOPLE. MRS THOMAS STEVENSON. AT NO. 8 HOWARD PLACE, EDINBURGH, R. L. S. WAS BORN ON I3THNOVEMBERl850, AND HERE WERESPEXT THE FIRST TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF HIS LIFE. FROM THE GARDEN OF THIS HOUSE HE VIEWED THE " FOREIGN LANDS" RECALLED IN HIS VERSES IN "A CHILD'S GARDEN, " AND HERE ALSO HE EAGERLY AWAITED THE DAILY PASSING OF ' ' LEERIE THE LAMP- LIGHTER, " WHOSE OCCUPATION IT WAS HIS CHILDISH AMBITION TO FOLLOW WHEN HE GREW UP.
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