Noël B. Livingston

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

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

Career

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

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

References
  1. "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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