Sir David Baird, 2nd Baronet
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Sir David Baird of Newbyth, 2nd baronet (1795 – 8 January 1852), was a British Baronet and captain in the British army
. He was born in 1795, the son of Robert Baird and Hersey Christina Maria Gavin. On August 10, 1821 he married Lady Anne Kennedy, daughter of Sir Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa and Margaret Erskine. Together they had ten children.
Baird succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Baird, of Newbyth, county Haddington on 18 August 1829, on the death of his uncle Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
. He was born in 1795, the son of Robert Baird and Hersey Christina Maria Gavin. On August 10, 1821 he married Lady Anne Kennedy, daughter of Sir Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa and Margaret Erskine. Together they had ten children.
Baird succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Baird, of Newbyth, county Haddington on 18 August 1829, on the death of his uncle Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet GCB was a British military leader.-Military career:He was born at Newbyth House in Haddingtonshire, Scotland, the son of an Edinburgh merchant family, and entered the British Army in 1772. He was sent to India in 1779 with the 73rd Highlanders, in which he...
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