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Survey of London
… was so little previous experience to build on. Dr. Lyon Playfair (181898), later Sir Lyon and first Lord Playfair, had the ideal Albertine mixture of Scots and German … to the chair of chemistry at Edinburgh University in 1858. Playfair was able to secure for scientific education of a …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… elders. From the Burgh of Kirkcaldy, Major Hugh Lyon Playfair, residing in the city of St Andrews. From the Burgh … Robert Bayne Dalgleish, Esq., of Dura, Colonel William Playfair, residing at St Andrews, ruling elders. From the …
Survey of London
… one of the Prince's former helpers, Professor Lyon Playfair, recommended a further scheme of the Prince'sthe …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the fees average about 10 per annum. The late Principal Playfair, of St. Andrew's, author of a work on chronology, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… he misliked any for using their friends in Court, and Dr. Playfair reported he had express licence from his lordship to …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1890s to the 1920s on Searle Street, and by 1929 at the Playfair Works on Benson Street; and the Victoria Works, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of the institution were erected after a design by Mr. Playfair, of Edinburgh, at an expense of about 10,000, and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in its applications to Agriculture and Physiology, ed. L. Playfair (1840), is generally regarded as stimulating many of …
Survey of London
… and that centrally SouthKensingtonian figure, Lyon Playfair, at No. 4. The last bought the freehold from the …