Edwin Brockholst Livingston

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]

On October 5, 1875, Edwin married Alice Mary Power (1850-1926) in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg. She was the daughter of Irish politician Maurice Power (1811–1870), who served as a Member of Parliament for County Cork and the Lieutenant General for St Lucia, and Catherine (née Livingston) Power (b. 1815). Through her mother, Alice was a granddaughter of Judge Livingston.^[7] Together, they were the parents of:

• 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 (1879-1958) married Gustav P. Bissinger (d. 1945) and reverted to her family name after their divorce.
• William Livingston (b. 1884)
• Dorothy Joan Livingston (b. 1888)

Livingston died at his daughter Cornelia's residence, Château de Montalègre in Versols-et-Lapeyre, France near Geneva, on May 14, 1929.^[12][13]