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His health began to fail in 1877 and in
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Edinburgh on 23 November 1878. The grave bears a bronze medallion of his head by
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lighthouse. The engineering work for the latter was undertaken by the brothers
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Stevenson, Robert Louis' father and uncle respectively.
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