• Thomas Alfred John Playfair DSO OBE VD (13 October 1890 – 9 August 1966) was an Australian politician, military officer and meat exporter. He served as...
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    John Thomas Playfair (1832 – 15 November 1893) was an English-born Australian butcher, ship's providore, politician and benefactor. John Thomas Playfair...
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  • philanthropist Thomas Playfair, and the niece of politician Thomas Alfred John Playfair. Playfair is the cousin of Olympic silver medalist Judy Playfair, aunt...
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    The Critic (1928). Playfair interspersed the classics with new musical shows with scores by Dennis Arundell, Thomas Dunhill and Alfred Reynolds and words...
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  • University of Sydney. Playfair is the granddaughter of the Sydney businessman, politician and soldier Thomas Alfred John Playfair. She attended Kambala...
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  • Wendy Playfair. Williams is a direct descendant of the former Sydney Lord Mayor Thomas Playfair, and the great great nephew of politician Thomas Alfred John...
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  • place. Playfair is the great-grandson of the Sydney businessman, politician and soldier Thomas Alfred "Jack" Playfair. Jack's grandfather John Thomas Playfair...
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  • Professor Sir John Beverley Peden KCMG, barrister and professor of law Cardinal George Pell AC Brigadier Hon Thomas Alfred John Playfair DSO OBE VD MLC...
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  • Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau Thomas Mellard Reade Anthony Rich George Rolleston G.J. Romanes John Forbes...
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    Montanari 1993, p. 206. Playfair 2004a, p. 224. Toppe 1990, p. A-8-25. Playfair 2004a, pp. 223–224. Mead 2007, p. 298. Playfair 2004a, pp. 224–225. Walker...
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  • (private scholar) John R. Hendricks (meteorologist) Anthony Hill (painter) Paul Jaccard (botanist) Alfred Bray Kempe (lawyer) Thomas Kirkman (church rector)...
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    American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0679444909. online free —— (2000). Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty. Viking...
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    continuing his studies at RADA, Gielgud appeared again for Playfair in Robert E Lee by John Drinkwater. After leaving the academy at the end of 1923 Gielgud...
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  • Lyon Playfair Robert Porrett L H Potts G Owen Rees David Boswell Reid Thomas Richardson Maurice Scanlan Ollive Sims Denham Smith Edward Solly Jnr John Stenhouse...
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    of scientific testing were rudimentary; as part of his colleague Lyon Playfair's investigations into "overflowing privies", Sir Henry De la Beche once...
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     117. Playfair 2004, p. 97. Playfair 2004, p. 30. Playfair 2004, p. 15. Rommel 1953, p. 156. Playfair 2004, p. 100. Rommel 1953, p. 178. Playfair 2004...
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    February 9, 1737. The O.S. link gives more detail if needed. Ayer, Alfred Jules (1990). Thomas Paine. University of Chicago Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0226033396...
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    stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique). However, Wheatstone is best known for...
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     1809–1814), where he studied mathematics with John Leslie, science with John Playfair and moral philosophy with Thomas Brown. He gravitated to mathematics and...
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    The Duenna (category Compositions by Thomas Linley the elder)
    restoration of The Beggar's Opera at Hammersmith with Nigel Playfair in 1920–23. Playfair took up the challenge with George Sheringham as his designer...
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  • Bowling in England in 1878 Webber, Roy; The Playfair Book of Cricket Records; p. 177. Published 1951 by Playfair Books. Gentlemen v Players at the Oval in...
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    Playfair et al. 2004a, pp. 260–261, 264. Bauer 2000, p. 95. Playfair et al. 2004a, p. 267. Mead 2007, p. 331. Playfair et al. 2004a, p. 271. Playfair...
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  • Pillai, Vijayan K Pink, Brian Pitman, E. J. G. (1897–1993) Plackett, Robin Playfair, William (1759–1823) Pleszczyńska, Elżbieta Pocock, Stuart Poisson, Siméon...
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  • Harold Johann Thomas Ellingham Sir Henry McMahon Thomas Arthur Rickard William Selkirk Alfred Jefferson Brett Rev. James Owen Hannay John Johnson Edward...
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    the University of Edinburgh from 1809 to 1812, lodging with Professor John Playfair, who oversaw his studies. He did not take a degree. Although often in...
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    Ferguson, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, James Hutton, Lord Monboddo, John Playfair, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and Dugald Stewart. The Scottish Enlightenment...
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  • message as a Playfair cipher, and translates it while Booth departs for Ford's Theatre to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Thomas solves the puzzle...
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  • Theodore W. Richards 1918: John Merle Coulter 1919: Simon Flexner 1920: Leland O. Howard 1921: Eliakim H. Moore 1922: J. Playfair McMurrich 1923: Charles...
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     41–43. Playfair 2004d, p. 113. Playfair 2004d, p. 188. Playfair 2004d, pp. 119, 187, 206. Macksey 1971, p. 33. Playfair 2004d, pp. 46, 121. Playfair 2004d...
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    co-founder of Ord Minnett Sir John Grant Phillips – former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1968–1975) Thomas Alfred Playfair – Former Chairman of Perpetual...
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