page_title: Thomas Livingstone, 1st Viscount Teviot
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Livingstone, 1st Viscount Teviot / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Alexander Levingstone (British School)
context_page_description: Sir Thomas Livingstone, Viscount Teviot was an military officer of Scottish descent who was born in the Netherlands and spent his career in the service of William of Orange.
  Following the 1688 Glorious Revolution, he was deputy to Hugh Mackay during the 1689-1692 Jacobite Rising in Scotland. He later succeeded Mackay in November 1690 as Commander-in-Chief, Scotland, which he retained until the end of the Nine Years' War in 1697.
  Promoted Lieutenant-General in 1703, he retired from military service in 1704 and died in London on 14 January 1711.
context_section_description: Livingstone was buried in Westminster Abbey, his brother paying for an ornate memorial located near the choir or quire.
  He published an account of Cromdale in May 1690 based on his despatch to Mackay entitled A true and real account of the defeat of General Buchan, and Brigadeer Cannon, their High-land army, at the battel of Crombdell; upon the 1st of May; 1690. Conform to a letter, sent by Sir Thomas Livingston collonel to a regiment of dragoons to Major General Mackay, giving a particular account of the said defeat; with a list of the officers taken at the said battel, and at the castle of Lethen-Dee.
  He also wrote a drill guide Exercise of the Foot, with the evolution according to the words of command etc etc; his entry in the Scottish Peerage describes this as 'a scarce work.'
caption: Alexander Livingstone
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