Noël B. Livingston

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Noel B. Livingston, private of section IV, B. Company, Jamaica Reserve Regiment

Sir Noël Brooks Livingston (9 November 1882 – 17 January 1954) was a Jamaican politician, judge, author, and genealogist.

Career[edit]

Livingston 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[edit]

In 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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Fortunate Jamaica". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXXI, no. 21722. 10 February 1934. p. 14. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "No. 35029". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1940. p. 3.

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