George Henry Slight

George Henry Slight (30 September 1859 – 26 June 1934) was a Scottish engineer who established the Chilean lighthouse service.

After an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer, he worked on the steamers plying the route between Britain and India.

He subsequently worked for several years with Trinity House, which was responsible for the lighthouse service in England and Wales.

[1] In 1893 Slight was recruited by the Chilean ambassador in London, Agustin Ross, who had been ordered by the President of Chile, Jorge Montt, to find someone suitable to establish a system of lighthouses in the country.

His gravestone in the Valparaiso General Cemetery bears the English epitaph "His lights still shine over the waters of the Pacific Ocean".