Playfair, Lyon
(male)
05/21/1818 - 05/29/1898
Scottish
St. Andrews University
Politican and chemist; born in India; studied chemistry in Germany; professor at the Royal Institution of Manchester; chemist to the Geological Society; professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh University; politically active MP; created Baron Playfair in 1892. See Boase VI: 404-5, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)