Personality · Politics & public life
Politician · Chemist · University teacher
- Liberal Party
📍 Birthplace Haiti
May 1, 1818 – May 29, 1898
Haiti
Wikidata (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)Not yet claimed
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair was a British scientist and Liberal politician who was Postmaster-General from 1873 to 1874.
Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0
Offices held
- 1868 – 1874member of the 20th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1873 – 1874Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
- 1874 – 1880member of the 21st Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1880 – 1885member of the 22nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1880 – 1883Chairman of Ways and Means
- 1885 – 1886member of the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1886Secretary of State for Education
- 1886 – 1892member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- 1892 – 1898member of the House of Lords
- 1892member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Career
- 1840Organic chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiologyWork
- 1841Organic chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiologyWork
- 1843Chemistry in its application to agriculture and physiologyWork
- 1843Chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiologyWork
- 1854Chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiologyWork
Distinctions
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Places
- Birthplace
- Haiti
- Languages
- English
Official links and sources
Information from
- Wikidata, Q333737 (CC0)
- Photo: Lock & Whitfield, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Covers: Open Library and Cover Art Archive, where available; other titles are shown without their cover.