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Stevenson , Frederick James , 1835-1926 , engineer and explorer
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Born, 1835; educated, Montgreenan House School, Ayrshire; articled pupil to T E Blackwell, civil engineer, and assisted the construction of the Kennet and Avon Canal; assistant engineer constructing a branch of the Grand Trunk Railway, Canada; expeditions to Mammoth Caves in Kentucky, Amazon, Monte Video, Argentine, Chile, Patagonian coast, Peru, Bolivia and West Indian Islands; returned to England, 1870; ran a camp for schoolboys, 1892-1914; died, 1926.