- BAIRD, JAMES
- ironmaster, founder of the Baird Lectureship, in vindication of Scotch orthodoxy; bequeathed £500,000 to support churches (1802-1876).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BAIRD, JAMES
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