Category:Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair

**Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair**
	British politician and chemist (1818-1898)
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Name in native language	Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair;
Date of birth	1 May 1818; Haiti
Date of death	29 May 1898; South Kensington
Place of burial	St Andrews;
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
Educated at	University of St Andrews; University of Edinburgh;
Doctoral student	James Dewar;
Occupation	chemist; politician; university teacher;
Employer	University of Edinburgh;
Member of	Royal Society; Royal Society of Edinburgh; Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society;
Member of political party	Liberal Party;
Position held	Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (1873–1874); Chairman of Ways and Means (1880–1883); Secretary of State for Education (1886–1886); Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom; member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1892–1892); member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1886–1892); member of the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1885–1886); member of the 22nd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1880–1885); member of the 21st Parliament of the United Kingdom (1874–1880); member of the 20th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1868–1874); member of the House of Lords (1892–1898);
Noble title	baron; Baron Playfair (1, death, 1892–1898);
Father	George Playfair;
Mother	Janet Ross;
Child	Jessie Anne Playfair; George James Playfair, 2nd Baron Playfair; Ethel Mary Lyon Playfair;
Spouse	Margaret Eliza Oakes (1846 – unknown value); Jean Ann Millington (1857 – unknown value); Edith, Lady Playfair (1878 – unknown value);
Work location	London;
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh;
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	Q333737; ISNI: 0000000083868155; VIAF ID: 59894144; GND ID: 119436604; Library of Congress authority ID: n86844851; IdRef ID: 08453107X; Libraries Australia ID: 49784208; National Library of Israel ID (old): 000106298; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 227129415; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID: 22368; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007266524605171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA07096391; Open Library ID: OL2514680A
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