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...

the death of the second Baron in 1939. Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (1818–1898) George James Playfair, 2nd Baron Playfair (1849–1939) "No. 26323"...

Smoult Playfair, Sir Lambert Playfair and Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair who was named in his honour. His grandson, Elliot Minto Playfair (1826-1899)...

Wallpaper. Nigel Playfair's paternal uncles included Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, scientist and politician, and Lambert Playfair, soldier, diplomat...

of Jim Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (1818–1898), promoter of the Playfair cipher, manual symmetric encryption technique Sir Nigel Playfair (1874–1934)...

to India. His elder brother, Lyon, became Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair. Another brother was Dr William Smoult Playfair, who became involved in a notorious...

hospitals in Bengal and son of James Playfair (1738–1819). Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair and Robert Lambert Playfair were among his brothers. He was educated...

Playfair. He was paternal grandfather to Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair through his son George Playfair.[citation needed] A System of Chronology (1782)...

Paget Josef Popper Samuel Tolver Preston Joseph Prestwich Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau Thomas Mellard Reade...

inventor of the Bessemer process for steelmaking. May 29 – Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (born 1818), Scottish chemist. August 27 – John Hopkinson...

place in the Westminster laboratory of Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair. Whilst there, Frankland attended Playfair's lecture course; at the end of it he...

Leslie Stephen, British author and literary critic 1886: Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, British politician 1884: Richard Claverhouse Jebb, British...

Salisbury Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford 17 September 1885 28 January 1886 Conservative Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair 13 February 1886 20 July...

of Wales Macvey Napier, encyclopedist Mungo Park, explorer Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, scientist and parliamentarian Daphne Pochin Mould, photographer...

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his Proposer being Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair. He served as a Counillor to the Society 1868-9. In 1882 he...

Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh FRS, FRAS, FGS, physicist 1885: Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair MP, FRS, FRSE 1886: Sir John William Dawson CMG, geologist...

G. B. Whittaker. 1825. pp. 645–646. Urban, Sylvanus (1838). "Obituary: Baron Farnborough". The Gentleman's Magazine. IX (163). London: William Pickering:...

1899–1900. Roger Pincham, Chairman of the Liberal Party, 1979–83. Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, scientist, Liberal MP 1868–92, and Postmaster-General 1873–74...

the Royal Society of Edinburgh in January 1800, being proposed by John Playfair. Arbuthnot managed a plantation on the island of Carriacou, in the Grenadines...

Major-General Lewis Lyne General Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch Brigadier-General Charles Lyon Brigadier Cyril Arthur Lyon (1880—1955), Ceylon GOC, Penang Fortress...

Lieutenant-General Francis Humberston Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, FRS, FRSE, FLS (9 June 1754 – 11 January 1815) was a British politician, soldier...

Military Press. ISBN 1-84574-069-6. Playfair, I. S. O.; Flynn, F. C.; Molony, C. J. C. & Gleave, T. P. (2004) [1st. pub. HMSO 1960]. Butler, J. R. M. (ed...

Henry Thurstan Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, GCMG, PC (3 August 1825 – 29 January 1914), known as Sir Henry Holland, Bt, from 1873 to 1888 and as The...

Edinburgh Playfair had received 1,742 votes and Bickersteth 1526, and at St Andrew's Playfair received 512 votes and Bickersteth 698. Eleven of Playfair's ballot...

November 1673 – 14 January 1686 John Playfair 5 February 1807 10 March 1748 – 20 July 1819 Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair 9 June 1848 21 May 1818 – 29 May...

Lichfield, politician 1869 (16th): Charles Dickens, author 1870 (17th): Lyon Playfair, scientist and Liberal politician 1871 (18th): T. H. Huxley, biologist...

Biographies of Scientific Men (1912) "Liebig, Justus, Baron von". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. "Liebig, Justus, Baron von". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921....

University of Edinburgh from 1809 to 1812, lodging with Professor John Playfair, who oversaw his studies. He did not take a degree. Although often in poor...

(1975). The Foundations of Newton's Alchemy or "The Hunting of the Greene Lyon". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Keynes, John Maynard (1963). Essays...

Paget (née Mary "Minnie" Fiske Stevens) on 27 July 1878 Edith Playfair, Baroness Playfair [1892] (née Edith Russell) on 3 October 1878 The Hon. Mrs Octavius...