Baron Playfair

Baron Playfair, of St Andrews in the County of Fife, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created on 3 September 1892 for the scientist and Liberal politician Sir Lyon Playfair. He was succeeded by his only son, the second Baron. He was a Brigadier-General in the British Army. His only son, the Hon. Lyon George Henry Lyon Playfair (1888-1915), was a Captain in the Royal Field Artillery and was killed in action in the First World War, unmarried. Consequently, the title became extinct on the death of the second Baron in 1939.

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair

Barons Playfair (1892)
gollark: Round things were patented, so they can't use oblate spheroids without paying the ruinous royalties.
gollark: Most physics treats them as point masses or weird probability-clouds.
gollark: The government also operates light catapults, of course, for certain situations.
gollark: Of course.
gollark: So when the Sun circles round the Earth, some bits are lit and some unlit at different times.

References
  1. "No. 26323". The London Gazette. 6 September 1892. p. 5090.
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