Smeaton's Tower administrator Sir John Barrow. Smeaton's Tower has been a Grade I-listed building since 1954. It is open for visitors, who may climb 93 steps, including steep ladders, to the lantern room, and observe Plymouth Sound and the city. Smeaton's Tower Smeaton's Tower is a memorial to celebrated civil engineer John Smeaton, designer of the third and most notable Eddystone Lighthouse. A major step forward in lighthouse design, Smeaton's structure was in use from 1759 to 1877, until erosion of the ledge it was built upon forced new construction. The tower was largely dismantled and rebuilt on Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth,
Donald Mackenzie Smeaton three months after retiring from Parliament. Donald Mackenzie Smeaton Donald Mackenzie Smeaton (9 September 1848 – 19 April 1910), son of David James Smeaton, was a Scottish politician who was the Liberal MP for Stirlingshire from January 1906 until January 1910. Smeaton was educated at the Abbey Park Institution, St. Andrew's, a boarding school run by his father, at which not less than 80 young men were boarded and educated. He then attended the University of St Andrews, where he graduated with an M.A. degree. Arriving in India in 1867, Smeaton held minor appointments in the North-Western Provinces. On 5