Robert Lambert Playfair
1828–99
Colonial administrator and author. Royal (Madras) Artillery, 1846–61; Madras staff corps, 1861–3. Consul and lieutenant-colonel, Zanzibar, 1863–7; consul-general, Algeria, 1867; territory of Algeria and northern Africa, 1889. Wrote books for travellers on Algeria and other parts of the region, as well as extensive bibliographies of Algeria and Morocco.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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