Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet

Sir Alexander Baird of Urie, 1st Baronet, 2nd of Ury, GBE (22 October 1849 – 20 June 1920) was Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire from 1889 to 1918 and later served as president of the Permanent Arbitration Board in Egypt.

Biography

He was educated at Harrow School.

He spent a large portion of his life in Egypt, and later served as president of the Permanent Arbitration Board in Egypt. He had a house in Mattarieh, just outside Cairo, where he died. He spoke fluent Arabic and was heavily involved in philanthropic projects in the country.

Baird was also Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire from 1889 to 1918. He built Ury House, Stonehaven, which eventually passed into the ownership of the Earls of Kintore.

Baird was created a

Baird married The Hon. Annette Palk, the eldest daughter of the 1st Baron Haldon, on 16 July 1873, and they had seven children:

• John Lawrence Baird, later 1st Viscount Stonehaven (1874–1947)
• Alexander Walter Frederick Baird (1876–1931), soldier.
• Evelyn Margaret Baird (1875–1926)
• Janet Norah Baird (1878–1943)
• Edith Annette Baird (1880–1881)
• Nina Isabel Baird (1882–1919)
• Muriel Jane Baird (1884–1968)

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.^[4]

References

• Obituary, The Times, 22 June 1920
• Letter from Valentine Chirol, The Times, 23 June 1920

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