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lighthouse keeper
A lighthouse keeper is the person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil lamps and clockwork mechanisms were used.
==Duties and functions==
Lighthouse keepers were needed to trim the wicks, replenish fuel, wind clockworks and perform maintenance tasks such as cleaning lenses and windows. Electrification and other automated improvements such as remote monitoring and automatic bulb changing made paid keepers resident at the lights unnecessary. The earliest record of a named individual in a formal capacity as a lighthouse keeper was William, a member of the now famous Knott family, who was appointed to the South Foreland lighthouse near Dover, Kent, UK in 1730.〔David Alan Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses before 1820, Oxford University Press, 1959, p103. (Genealogical research has now shown the keeper's name as William - not Henry - Knott, as stated in the reference.〕 In the US, periodic maintenance of the lights is now performed by visiting Coast Guard Aids to Navigation teams.
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