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to whom many of the principal public buildings
in Edinburgh are due.
Third generation.—21 males and 20 females,
of whom 2 males deserve especial notice :—(l)
The Right Hon. Lyon Playfair, M.P., F.R.S.,
formerly professor of chemistry, long engaged in
scientific administration of various kinds, and
postmaster-general at the close of the late
administration ; (2) Colonel R. L. Playfair, R.A.,
the well-known consul-general of Algiers, and
naturalist. A third brother is a professor at
King’s College.
Roscoe.—The type of this family is strongly
marked ; it has been characterized by much cul¬
tivation, refinement, and poetical taste.
First generation.—William Roscoe, author of
“ Lorenzo di Medici,” “LeoX.”&c. The above
mentioned characteristics were strongly marked
in him. (Life by his son, Memoirs by
Hartley Coleridge in “Northern Worthies,” and
“ Sketches ” by Washington Irving.)
Second generation.—7 males and 3 females,
of whom 4 males and 2 females deserve notice :—