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Robert (Bob) Alan Mowbray 
Stevenson
1847 - 1900


Robert (Bob) Alan Mowbray 
Stevenson
, educ. Windermere, Edinburgh Sch. of Art, Sidney Sussex, Camb. (Oct 1866), BA (1871), Sidney Sussex , Camb. MA The Times, Friday, Oct 14, 1881; pg. 7; Issue 30325; col F University Intelligence. Oxford, Oct. 13. Of Chiswick (poss. Stilehall Gardens), London, painter, art critic, & conversationalist, etc, Professor of Art, Liverpool, etc., favourite (1st) cousin of "R.L.S.", etc. In the 1881 census, he is recorded as Graduate Cambridge (Artist). Roscoe Professor of Fine Arts, Liverpool (1891). Wrote: Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors / Kirk, J. F.. - London. - 1891 (2 vols) Modern English biography / Boase, F.. - A facsimile of the Truro, 1892-1921 ed (6 vols) Venn: STEVENSON, ROBERT ALAN MOWBRAY College: SIDNEY Entered: Michs. 1866 Born: Mar. 25, 1847 Died: Apr. 18, 1900 Adm. pens. at SIDNEY, Oct. 8, 1866. Only s. of Alan, railroad-engineer, of Edinburgh [builder of Skerryvore lighthouse, engineer to the Board of Northern Lights] (for whom see D.N.B.) (and Margaret Jones). B. Mar. 25, 1847, in Edinburgh. School, Windermere College (Mr Puckle). Matric. Michs. 1866; B.A. 1871; M.A. 1882. Studied painting under Auguste Ortmans at Fontainebleau, 1869; at the School of Art, Edinburgh, 1871-2; at the Beaux Arts, Antwerp, 1873; at the atelier of Carolus Duran in Paris, 1873-6. Accompanied R. L. Stevenson, his cousin, in the `canoe-trip' in France, 1876. Exhibited landscape paintings at the Royal Academy and other galleries. Taught painting at Cambridge in association with the Slade Professor. Roscoe Professor of Fine Arts, Liverpool University College, 1880-93. Contributed to the Saturday Review, 1883-9, as critic of painting and music. Art Critic of the Pall Mall Gazette, 1893-1900. Married, 1881, Louisa, dau. of Theodore Pyrland, Esq. Author, The Art of Velasquez, etc. Died Apr. 18, 1900. (Boase, VI. 620; Who was Who; D.N.B.) Sidney Colvin, `Stevenson, Robert Alan Mowbray (1847-1900)', rev. Kate Flint, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26437, accessed 23 Sept 2005] RW "Note 13: _Spring-Heel'd Jack_. This is Stevenson's cousin "Bob," Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847-1900), an artist and later Professor of Fine Arts at University College, Liverpool. He was one of the best conversationalists in England. Stevenson said of him, "My cousin Bob, ... is the man likest and most unlike to me that I have ever met.... What was specially his, and genuine, was his faculty for turning over a subject in conversation. There was an insane lucidity in his conclusions; a singular, humorous eloquence in his language, and a power of method, bringing the whole of life into the focus of the subject under hand; none of which I have ever heard equalled or even approached by any other talker." (Balfour's _Life of Stevenson_, I, 103. For further remarks on the cousin, see note to page 104 of the _Life_.)]""

Born: Edinburgh, Scotland 28th Mar 1847 Baptised:
Died: 41 Oxford rd, Chiswick, Chiswick, London, England 18th Apr 1900 Buried: 1900
Family:
Stevenson
  formerly of Neilston

Ancestors
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1.
Robert (Bob) Alan Mowbray 
Stevenson
(
Purland
) 1847 - 1900
2.
Robert Alan (Alan) 
Stevenson
(
Jones
) 1807 - 1865
4.
Dr. Robert 
Stevenson
  (Stivenson)
(
Smith
) 1772 - 1851
5.
Jean (Jane) 
Smith
(
Stevenson
) 1779 - 1846
3.
Margaret (Gatchie) Scott 
Jones
(
Stevenson
) 1812 - 1895
6.
Humphrey Herbert 
Jones
(
Scott
) 1786 - 1842
7.
Jean Orr 
Scott
(
Jones
) 1787 - 1843

Siblings


1.
Jean (Mab) Margaret Alan 
Stevenson
(
Gibson Thomson
,
Denton
) 1849 - 1900
2.
Dorothea (Big Dora) Frances Alan 
Stevenson
(
Fowke
) 1850 - 1931
3.
Katherine Elizabeth Alan 
Stevenson
(
de Mattos
) 1851 - 1939

Spouses



1. Marylebone Register Office, London, , , England 27th Aug 1881
Harriett Louisa 
Purland
(
Stevenson
) 1856 - 1909

Descendants
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a.
Harriett Louisa 
Purland
(
Stevenson
) 1856 - 1909
1.
Margaret Mowbray 
Stevenson
1883 - 1924
2.
Alan Louis 
Stevenson
1888 - 1888
3.
Jean Katherine 
Stevenson
1889 - 1889
4.
Thomas Alan Humphrey 
Stevenson
(
Doderet
) 1893 - 1972
4a.
Esme Agnes 
Doderet
(
Stevenson
) 1889 - 1984
4.1.
Pamela Jean 
Stevenson
(
Godfrey
) 1919 - post 1948 ...
4.2.
Richard Ian Mowbray 
Stevenson
(
Stevens
) 1927 - post 2013
Sources

Census

Timeline


28th Mar 1847Born (birth) Edinburgh, Scotland
13th Dec 1850Became an heir of
Dr. Robert 
Stevenson
  (Stivenson)
(
Smith
) 1772 - 1851 (will)
31st Mar 1851Lodger in 1851 census (census) Logie, Perths., Scotland
1871Son in 1871 census (census) Duddingston, Midlothian, Scotland
3rd Apr 1881Son in 1881 census (census) London, England
27th Aug 1881Married
Harriett Louisa 
Purland
(
Stevenson
) 1856 - 1909 (marriage) London, England
1891Head of household in 1891 census (census) London, England
Sep 1893Became an heir of
Robert Lewis (Louis) Balfour 
Stevenson
(
Van de Grift
) 1850 - 1894 (will)
c. 1895Executor of the will of
Margaret (Gatchie) Scott 
Jones
(
Stevenson
) 1812 - 1895 (will)
18th Apr 1900Died (death) Chiswick, London, England
1900Buried (burial)
c. 1900Made a will (will)
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