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Encyclopedia Britannica



PLAYFAIR, LYON PLAYFAIR

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 831 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PLAYFAIR, LYON PLAYFAIR , 1st BARON (1818-1898), was born at Chunar, Bengal province, on the 21st of May 1818. He was sent to Europe by his father at an early age, and received his first education at St Andrews. Subsequently he studied medicine at Glasgow and Edinburgh. A short visit to India (in 1837-1838) was followed by his return to Europe to studychemistry, which had always attracted him. This he did at University College, London, and afterwards under
Liebig
  at Giessen, where he took his
doctor
 's degree. At
Liebig
 's request, Playfair translated into English the former's
work
  on the Chemistry of Agriculture, and represented Liebig at a meeting of the British Association at Glasgow. The outcome of his studies was his engagement in 1841 as chemical manager of the Primrose print-works at Clitheroe, a post which he held for rather more than a year. In 1843 he was elected honorary professor of chemistry to the Royal Institution of Manchester, and soon afterwards was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on the Health of Towns, a
body
  whose investigations may be said to have laid the foundations of modern sanitation. In 1846 he was appointed chemist to the geological survey, and thenceforward was constantly employed by the public departments in matters of sanitary and chemical inspection. The opportunity of his life came with the 1851 Exhibition, of which he was one of the
special
  commissioners. For his services in this connexion he was made C.B., and his
work
  had the additional advantage of bringing him into close personal relations with the Prince Consort, who appointed him
gentleman
  usher in his household. From 1856 to 1869 he was professor of chemistry at Edinburgh University. In 1868 he was elected to represent the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews in
parliament
 , and retained his seat till 1885, from which date until 1892 he sat as member for Leeds. In 1873 he was made postmaster-general, and in the following year, after the dissolution of
parliament
 , was applied to by the incoming Tory government to preside over a commission to inquire into the working of the civil service. Its report established a completely new system, which has ever since been officially known as the "Playfair
scheme
 ." The return of Mr Gladstone to power in 188o afforded opportunity for Playfair to resume his interrupted parliamentary career, and from that time until 1883 he acted as chairman of committees during a period when the obstructive tactics of the Irish party were at their height. On his retirement from the post he was made K.C.B. In 1892 he was created Baron Playfair of St Andrews, and a little later was appointed lord-in-waiting to the queen. In 1895 he was given the G.C.B. In spite of failing health the last years of his life were full of activity, one of his latest public acts being his suggestion that Queen Victoria's Diamond
Jubilee
  of 1897 should be commemorated by the completion of the South Kensington Museum. He died in London, after a short illness, on the 29th of May 1898, and was buried at St Andrews. He was three times married. He was the author of a number of papers on scientific and social topics, a selection from which he published in 1889 under the title of Subjects of Social Welfare.
A memoir by Sir Wemyss Reid was published in 1899.


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