Sir Noël Brooks Livingston (9 November 1882 – 17 January 1954) was a Jamaican politician, judge, author, and genealogist.
Career
editLivingston was a solicitor by training and a member of the Supreme Court of Jamaica.[1] He was an early contributor to the Jamaican Historical Review (established 1945), the journal of the Jamaican Historical Society which was established in 1943.[2]
Livingston was the president of the Legislative Council of Jamaica from 1945 to 1952. He was knighted in the 1941 New Year Honours.[3]
Family
editIn 1924, Livingston married Amy, Lady Cuffe (1883–1945); she was the widow of Surgeon-General Sir Charles Cuffe (1842–1915). In 1934, the Livingstons went to New Zealand for a holiday and for him to observe the court system. They met with family in Auckland; Livingston had the same maternal grandparents—Francis and Eleanor Harris—as Minna Pycroft (née Harris), the wife of Arthur Pycroft.[1]
Selected publications
edit- Sketch Pedigrees of Some of the Early Settlers in Jamaica &c. Educational Supply Company, Kingston, 1909.
- "Records of Jamaica", Caribbeana, Vol. 1 (1910):135
References
edit- ^ a b "Fortunate Jamaica". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXXI, no. 21722. 10 February 1934. p. 14. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
- ^ "Historiography of Jamaica" by Howard Johnson in B. W. Higman (Ed.) (1999). General History of the Caribbean: Volume VI Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean. London: Macmillan & UNESCO. pp. 478–530 (p. 494). ISBN 978-92-3-103360-5.
- ^ "No. 35029". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1940. p. 3.
External links
edit- https://nljdigital.nlj.gov.jm/items/show/2348#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-108%2C0%2C636%2C647
- https://books.google.com/books?id=YlJWDwAAQBAJ&dq=Livingston%2C+No%C3%ABl+B&pg=PT300
- https://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2015/12/gillian-forrester-noel-b-livingstons-gallery-of-illustrious-jamaicans/
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