Career
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. The first publication of Edwin’s research (privately printed in 1887) was limited to the early history of the family in Scotland. lieutenant was titled: The Livingstons of Callendar, and their Principal Cadets - a Family History, revised and republished in 1921.
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.
Edwin’s final publication was in 1927 titled: The Captain of Stirling Castle James Livingston, in collaboration with James Livingston. Edwin Brockholst Livingston was a shipping insurance broker living in London.
Edwin died in his daughter"s (Cornelia de la Poer Van Pallandt) Chateau Montalegre near Geneva on 14 May 1929.
