Editing Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (section)

==Family==
[[File:Edith, Lady Playfair.jpg|thumb|left|Edith, Lady Playfair (née Russell), [[John Singer Sargent]], 1884]]
His younger brothers were, [[William Smoult Playfair]], a well known obstetrician, and [[Lambert Playfair|Sir Lambert Playfair]], 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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/edith-lady-playfair-edith-russell--32468|title=Edith, Lady Playfair (Edith Russell)|date=2017-01-05|work=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|access-date=2017-12-28|language=en}}</ref>