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

• Sketch Pedigrees of Some of the Early Settlers in Jamaica &c. Educational Supply Company, Kingston, 1909.
• "Records of Jamaica", Caribbeana, Vol. 1 (1910):135