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Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet

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belonged to a family which had become very wealthy in the first half of the nineteenth century through their ironworks. His father, John Baird (1798-1870) JP of Easterhouse, husband of Margaret Findlay, had inherited the
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Nina Isabel Baird ran a carpet factory in Amria, where she employed roughly 300 local women whose husbands had joined the Senussi rebel movement. She died in summer 1919 of Typhoid fever.
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from 1889 to 1918 and later served as president of the Permanent Arbitration Board in
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estate from his childless brother Alexander (1799-1862). Other uncles included
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This biography of a baronet in the baronetage of the United Kingdom is a
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Knight-Grand-Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
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and was heavily involved in philanthropic projects in the country.
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Baird married The Hon. Annette Palk, the eldest daughter of the
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Alexander Walter Frederick Baird (1876–1931), soldier.
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Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
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Sir Alexander Baird of Urie, 1st Baronet, 2nd of Ury
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Index

GBE
Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire
Egypt
Baird
Urie
William Baird
James Baird
John Baird
DL
JP
Member of Parliament
North West Lanarkshire
Harrow School
Egypt
Egypt
Mattarieh
Cairo
Arabic
Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire
Ury House
Stonehaven
Earls of Kintore
Baronet
Fetteresso
County of Kincardine
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Knight-Grand-Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
1920 civilian war honours
1st Baron Haldon
John Lawrence Baird, later 1st Viscount Stonehaven

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