William Henry Playfair FRSE (15 July 1790 – 19 March 1857) was a prominent Scottish architect in the 19th century who designed the Eastern, or Third, New...
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William Playfair (22 September 1759 – 11 February 1823), a Scottish engineer and political economist, served as a secret agent on behalf of Great Britain...
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William Playfair was a Scottish engineer and political economist. William Playfair may also refer to: William Smoult Playfair (1835–1903), Scottish obstetric...
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Scottish National Gallery (redirect from Playfair Project)
Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. The gallery houses Scotland's...
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architect William Henry Playfair and was used as a military headquarters in both world wars. The house was constructed in 1833 by Scottish architect William Henry...
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overlooking the city of Edinburgh and was designed by Scottish architect William Henry Playfair. Dugald Stewart was a professor at the University of Edinburgh and...
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ground). Playfair's brothers were architect James Playfair, solicitor Robert Playfair and engineer William Playfair. His nephew, William Henry Playfair (1790–1857)...
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Old Calton Burial Ground (section John Playfair)
notable Scots, including philosopher David Hume, scientist John Playfair, rival publishers William Blackwood and Archibald Constable, and clergyman Dr Robert...
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Mound and Princes Street in the centre of the city. It was built by William Henry Playfair in 1822-6. Along with the adjacent National Gallery of Scotland...
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It was designed during 1823–6 by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair and is modeled upon the Parthenon in Athens. Construction started...
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appearance of a Greek temple is the Playfair Building, named after the building's designer William Henry Playfair. This houses the 6-inch (15 cm) refractor...
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Robert and William, father of William Henry Jim Playfair (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player and coach, brother of Larry John Playfair (1748–1819)...
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after considerable delays was completed to a modified design by William Henry Playfair, except for the dome added later. It is a Category A listed building...
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Robbie Coltrane and Kevin McKidd, architects Robert Adam, William Thornton, William Henry Playfair, Sir Basil Spence and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, astronaut...
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archive of the RCSEd. The present Surgeons' Hall was designed by William Henry Playfair and completed in 1832, and is a category A listed building. Surgeons'...
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Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair GCB PC FRS (1 May 1818 – 29 May 1898) was a British scientist and Liberal politician who was Postmaster-General from...
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Caröe, English ecclesiastical architect (died 1938) March 19 – William Henry Playfair, English-born neoclassical architect working in New Town, Edinburgh...
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Italianate country house in Moray, Scotland. It was designed by William Henry Playfair for Charles Lennox Cumming-Bruce, and was completed in 1829. Originally...
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Floors Castle (category William Adam buildings)
the 6th Duke (1816–1879) commissioned the fashionable architect William Henry Playfair to remodel and rebuild the plain Georgian mansion house he had inherited...
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Eastern, or Third, New Town were faithfully carried on by his pupil William Henry Playfair, who later designed many of Edinburgh's neoclassical landmarks....
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featuring Tullibody Old Kirk New College, on the Mound, designed by William Henry Playfair and built 1845–1850. Hill & Adamson took photographic portraits...
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held in 1844 and, though not one of the winners, the design by William Henry Playfair was chosen and built 1845–1850. At the formation of the United Free...
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posthumously in 1814. The commissioners decided to turn to Stark's pupil William Henry Playfair. He was appointed in February 1818, and produced a plan in April...
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author Robert Louis Stevenson. The renowned Scottish architect William Henry Playfair was responsible for the elegant thoroughfare that encircles the...
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by Philip Hardwick. St Stephen's Church, Edinburgh, designed by William Henry Playfair. St John on Bethnal Green, London, designed by John Soane. Second...
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year for £10,500. His son William Allan of Glen, Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1829 to 1831, commissioned William Henry Playfair to extend the existing...
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the Gothic in church architecture. Neoclassicism was pursued by William Henry Playfair, Alexander "Greek" Thomson and David Rhind. The late nineteenth...
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Edinburgh and working on the National Monument with fellow Freemason, William Henry Playfair, Cockerell was Initiated into Scottish Freemasonry in Lodge Holyrood...
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the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, and others of James Clerk Maxwell, William Henry Playfair and John Witherspoon. Stoddart says of his own motivation, "My great...
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William Henry Playfair, University of Edinburgh: bevelled edges of each stone block emphasise the voussoirs, which have a curved base and together form...
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