A Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson (he would later change the Lewis to Louis) was born in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850. His father called Thomas belonged to a family of engineers who had built many of the deep-sea lighthouses around Scotland. His mother was called Margret Isabella Balfour came from a family of church ministers and lawyers. In 1857 the family moved to 17 Heriot Row, a solid respectable house in Edinburgh. At seventeen he enrolled at Edinburgh University to study engineering with the aim of following his father in the family firm. However, he abandoned e…