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...

William Playfair (22 September 1759 – 11 February 1823), a Scottish engineer and political economist, served as a secret agent on behalf of Great Britain...

ground). Playfair's brothers were architect James Playfair, solicitor Robert Playfair and engineer William Playfair. His nephew, William Henry Playfair (1790–1857)...

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...

William Playfair was a Scottish engineer and political economist. William Playfair may also refer to: William Smoult Playfair (1835–1903), Scottish obstetric...

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...

notable Scots, including philosopher David Hume, scientist John Playfair, rival publishers William Blackwood and Archibald Constable, and clergyman Dr Robert...

Robert and William, father of William Henry Jim Playfair (born 1964), Canadian ice hockey player and coach, brother of Larry John Playfair (1748–1819)...

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...

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...

It was designed during 1823–6 by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair and is modeled upon the Parthenon in Athens. Construction started...

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...

Robbie Coltrane and Kevin McKidd, architects Robert Adam, William Thornton, William Henry Playfair, Sir Basil Spence and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, astronaut...

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...

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'...

the Gothic in church architecture. Neoclassicism was pursued by William Henry Playfair, Alexander "Greek" Thomson and David Rhind. The late nineteenth...

author Robert Louis Stevenson. The renowned Scottish architect William Henry Playfair was responsible for the elegant thoroughfare that encircles the...

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...

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 6th Duke (1816–1879) commissioned the fashionable architect William Henry Playfair to remodel and rebuild the plain Georgian mansion house he had inherited...

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...

to complete Robert Adam's university. He lost the competition to William Henry Playfair. Thenceforth, Burn started designing country houses. In 1827, he...

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...

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...

Eastern, or Third, New Town were faithfully carried on by his pupil William Henry Playfair, who later designed many of Edinburgh's neoclassical landmarks....

mansion that dates from 1721. It was designed by William Adam, but was remodeled by William Henry Playfair in the nineteenth century. Clan chief: Michael...

featuring Tullibody Old Kirk New College, on the Mound, designed by William Henry Playfair and built 1845–1850. Hill & Adamson took photographic portraits...

The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, designed by William Henry Playfair, is a Category A listed building....

William Henry Playfair, University of Edinburgh: bevelled edges of each stone block emphasise the voussoirs, which have a curved base and together form...

with views looking north towards Leith and the Firth of Forth. William Henry Playfair designed Royal Terrace between 1820 and 1824. Together with the...