Air Marshal Sir Philip Clermont Livingston, KBE, CB, AFC, FRCS (2 March 1893 − 12 February 1982) was a physician, aviator, and a senior officer in the Royal Air Force who served as Director-General RAF Medical Services from 1948 to 1951.
After university he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served from 1914 to 1919 as a surgeon probationer.
[1] As a result of a tour of German military establishments in 1937 he made recommendations for improving the flying equipment and the evaluation of RAF pilots.
Livingston retired to Vancouver Island where he continued to practise ophthalmology; and wrote Fringe of the Clouds, his autobiography.
Shortly after Mary Ellen's death he met and married Mary Ann Jarvis[note 1] They then moved to Cowichan in 1892 where Clermont was sent out by the Tyee Copper Company of London to manage the Tyee copper mine on Mount Sicker and a smelter[2][3]