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PLAYFAIR, George Macdonald Home was born on August 22, 1850 in Shahjehanpore, India. Son of Surgeon-General George R. Playfair, Doctor of Medicine.
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Title: The Cities and Towns of China, a geographical dictionary by G. M. H. Playfair. [A revised version of Biot's "Dictionnaire."] Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GEOGRAPHY & TOPOGRAPHY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Offering some insights into the study and mapping of the natural world, this collection includes texts on Babylon, the geographies of China, and the medieval Islamic world. Also included are regional geographies and volumes on environmental determinism, topographical analyses of England, China, ancient Jerusalem, and significant tracts of North America. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Biot, Édouard; Playfair, George Macdonald; 1879. lviii. 417. 31 p. ; 8º. 010057.k.35.
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PLAYFAIR, George Macdonald Home was born on August 22, 1850 in Shahjehanpore, India. Son of Surgeon-General George R. Playfair, Doctor of Medicine.
Cheltenham; Trinity College, Dublin. Master of Arts.
Entered Consular Service in China, 1872. Vice-Consul, Shanghai, 1891. Consul at Parhoi, 1894.
At Ningpo, 1894.
His Britannic Majesty Consul, Foochow^ since 1899.
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Clubs: Thatched House. Royal and Ancient Golf, Saint Andrews.