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Edwin Brockholst Livingston (1852-1929) was an amateur historian. His lifetime work was the research and publication of the genealogy of the Scottish Livingston family of Callendar, and the offshoots of the family that sought their fortune in colonial America. These included, Robert “the Founder”,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://clermontstatehistoricsite.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/always-guess-robert-sorting-out.html )〕 Governor William Livingston of New Jersey and his brother Philip who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Judge Robert R. Livingston of Clermont and his son, plus Edward Livingston, the friend and adviser of Andrew Jackson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1834333 )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/25519302?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103259315381 )〕 Edwin continued his research, corresponding widely including an exchange of letters with Theodore Roosevelt. 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''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://archive.org/details/livingstonslivi00unkngoog )〕 Edwin’s final publication was in 1927 titled: ''The Captain of Stirling Castle James Livingston'', in collaboration with James Livingston.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1152938M/The_captain_of_Stirling_Castle )〕 ==Edwin's Background== Edwin Brockholst Livingston was a shipping insurance broker living in London.〔Census records: 1881; 1891; 1901〕 His grandfather was Jasper Hall Livingston from Jamaica (a descendant from Philip "the signer")〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/24859 )〕 who had married Eliza, the daughter of judge Henry Brockholst Livingston from his first marriage to Catherine Keteltas. Edwin married a granddaughter of Judge Livingston - Alice Mary Power - whose mother was the youngest daughter of the Judge from his third marriage to Catherine Seaman. Alice's father was Irish politician Maurice Power, Member of Parliament for Cork (1847-1852) and Lieutenant General for St Lucia (1852-1857).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89061955639;view=1up;seq=701 )〕 Edwin died in his daughter's (Cornelia de la Poer Van Pallandt) Chateau Montalegre near Geneva on 14 May 1929.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://secure.flickr.com/photos/sidpickle/12027054166/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Brockholst Livingston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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