Livingston was born on August 17, 1852, in New York City. He was the son of Jasper Livingston and Mary (née Shuttleworth) Livingston. His grandfather was Jasper Hall Livingston from Jamaica (a descendant from Philip "the signer")[3] who had married Eliza Livingston, the daughter of judge Henry Brockholst Livingston from his first marriage to Catherine Keteltas.
Career
Edwin Brockholst Livingston was a shipping insurance broker living in London.[4]
The first publication of Edwin's research (privately printed in 1887) was limited to the early history of the family in Scotland. It was titled: The Livingstons of Callendar, and their Principal Cadets - a Family History, revised and republished in 1921.[5] Edwin continued his research, corresponding widely including an exchange of letters with Theodore Roosevelt.[6]
In 1910, Edwin published the next edition of his work titled: The Livingstons of Livingston Manor: being the history of that branch of the Scottish house of Callendar which settled in the English province of New York during the reign of Charles the Second; and also including an account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The Nephew," a settler in the same province, and his principal descendants.[7] In 1920, he published The Livingstons of Callendar and their Principal Cadets: the History of an Old Stirlingshire Family.[8][9][10]
Edwin's final publication was in 1927 titled: The Captain of Stirling Castle James Livingston, in collaboration with James Livingston.[11]
Cornelia Marie de la Poer Livingston (1882–1966), who first married Hubert Victor Arthur Auguste de Stuers (1879–1949) in 1906. They divorced and she married Dirk Jacob Gijsbert Jan van Pallandt (1864–1926), a relation of Baron Philip van Pallandt, on April 21, 1920, in Geneva.
Henry Brockholst Livingston (1895-1968), who married Elizabeth Rosemary Fitzgibbon (b. 1912), the daughter of Gerald Ernest George Fitzgibbon, on May 5, 1934. They lived at the Château de Bonmont, Cheserex, Vaud, Switzerland.
Lucinda Mary Livingston (b. 1876)
Alice Louisa Livingston (1877-1913). Died as a nun in Vienna.
Margaret (Daisy) Livingston (1979-1958) married Gustav P. Bissinger (d. 1945) and reverted to her family name after their divorce.
^Paul, James Balfour (1921). "Reviewed work: The Livingstons of Callendar and Their Principal Cadets: The History of an Old Stirlingshire Family, Edwin Brockholst Livingston". The Scottish Historical Review. 18 (70): 119–122. JSTOR25519302.
^Jameson, John Franklin; Bourne, Henry Eldridge; Schuyler, Robert Livingston (1921). The American Historical Review. American Historical Association. p. 826. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
^Greene, Richard Henry; Stiles, Henry Reed; Morrison, George Austin; Mott, Hopper Striker; Totten, John Reynolds; Forest, Louis Effingham De; Ditmas, Charles Andrew (1922). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. p. 286. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
^The captain of Stirling Castle. Open Library. OL1152938M.
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