page_title: Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Edith, Lady Playfair (nee Russell) 1884 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oil on canvas 152.08 x 98.42 cm (59 7/8 x 38 3/4 in.) Bequest of Edith, Lady Playfair 33.530 Jpg: MFA
context_page_description: Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair GCB PC FRS was a British scientist and Liberal politician.
context_section_description: His brother William Smoult Playfair was a well known obstetrician, and brother Sir Lambert Playfair was a soldier and diplomat.
  Playfair married three times. He firstly married Margaret Eliza Oakes, daughter of James Oakes, in 1846. After her death in August 1855 he married Jean Ann Millington, daughter of Crawley Millington, in 1857. There were children from both marriages. Jean Ann died in 1877 and is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh facing the section known as "Lords Row".  After her death, he married Edith Russell of Boston, whose 1884 portrait is in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
caption: Edith, Lady Playfair (née Russell), John Singer Sargent, 1884
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