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John Baird (1816-93)
John Baird may refer to: Sports *John Baird (American football) (born ), All-American football player *John Baird (Australian footballer) (born 1980), Australian rules footballer *John Baird (cyclist), former racing cyclist from New Zealand *John Baird (footballer, born 1870) (1870–1905), Scottish footballer *John Baird (footballer, born 1985), Scottish footballer playing for Forfar Athletic *John Campbell Baird (1856–1902), Scottish footballer Politics and government *John Baird, Lord Newbyth (1620–1698), Scottish advocate, judge, politician and diplomat *John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven (1874–1941), eighth Governor-General of Australia *John Baird (Canadian politician) (born 1969), Canadian politician and former cabinet minister *John Baird (Michigan politician) (1859–1934), Michigan State Representative and Senator British MPs *Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet (1686–1745), Scottish Member of Parliament for Edinburghshire *John Baird (North West Lanarkshire MP) (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baird (American Football)
John Baird (born c. 1877) was an American football player. He played at the Fullback (gridiron football), fullback and quarterback positions for Princeton University from 1895 to 1898 and was selected as a member of the 1896 College Football All-America Team. Biography A native of Haverford, Pennsylvania (located about 10 miles west of Philadelphia), Johnathan Baird was the son of Thomas E. Baird. Johnathan Baird attended the Haverford Grammar School followed by preparatory school at St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. Johnathan Baird played fullback for the St. Paul's football team before enrolling at Princeton in 1895. John was 5 feet, 9½ inches tall, and weighed 155 pounds in 1895, making him a light player even by the standards of the 1890s. As freshman, John played on Princeton's varsity football team. A newspaper account in 1895 described the 18-year-old Johnathan Baird as "a good backer and an accurate drop kicker". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John George Alexander Baird
John George Alexander Baird (1854–1917) was Unionist MP for Glasgow Central. He was a younger son of the industrialist and landowner William Baird of Elie House and Janet Johnstone. Baird was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He first stood for the seat in 1885, won it in 1886, but lost it narrowly in 1906. Baird served as a lieutenant of the 16th Lancers. He was later Lieutenant-colonel of the Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Imperial Yeomanry. He inherited the Muirkirk estate in Ayrshire from his uncle James Baird, upon which he built a mansion called Wellwood House, and later acquired Colstoun House in East Lothian through his wife Susan Georgina Fergusson. The daughter of Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet and Lady Edith Christian Ramsay, she had inherited the property through her paternal great-grandmother Christian Ramsay Christian Ramsay, Countess of Dalhousie informally Lady Dalhousie, ''née'' Broun; (28 February 1786 – 22 January 1839) was a Scottis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Washington Baird
John Washington Baird (February 22, 1852 – 1923)Jeremy Gaige, ''Chess Personalia: A Biobibliography'', McFarland & Company, 1987, p. 19. . was a minor American chess master, who played in a number of American and international chess tournaments between 1880 and 1906. He was the brother of David Graham Baird, who was also an American chess master. A writer in the ''New York Times'', describing the players in the Sixth American Chess Congress (1889), portrayed Baird and his brother as follows: Of the Baird brothers, David G. is the better player by far. He plays with characteristic Scotch carefulness, for he is of Scotch descent. Of medium height, he is inclined to stoutness, and is of light complexion. His brother John W. is very thin, although he looks like his brother in the face. He was one of the slowest players in the tournament. The date and place of Baird's death are unknown. Chess career Baird played in a number of American and international chess tournaments between 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wallace Baird
John Wallace Baird (; May 21, 1869 – February 2, 1919) was a Canadian psychologist. He was the 27th president of the American Psychological Association (1918). He was the first Canadian, and only the second non-American, to hold the office. He was also a founding editor of the ''Journal of Applied Psychology'', and served in subordinate editorial capacities for '' Psychological Review'', ''American Journal of Psychology'', and the ''Journal of Educational Psychology''. At his death in 1919, he was the designate to succeed Granville Stanley Hall as president of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Early life John W. Baird was born in Motherwell, Ontario, a farming town about 50 km. north of the city of London, Ontario. He was the eighth of twelve children. His oldest brother, Andrew Browning Baird (1855–1940) became a prominent Presbyterian minister in western Canada, serving as Moderator of the church in 1916, and was involved in the creation of the United Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird FRSE (; 13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube. In 1928 the Baird Television Development Company achieved the first transatlantic television transmission. Baird's early technological successes and his role in the practical introduction of broadcast television for home entertainment have earned him a prominent place in television's history. In 2006, Baird was named as one of the 10 greatest Scottish scientists in history, having been listed in the National Library of Scotland's 'Scottish Science Hall of Fame'. In 2015 he was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. On 26 January 2017 – IEEE unveiled a bronze street plaque at 22 Frith Street (Bar Italia), London, dedicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baird I
John Baird (1799–1859) was a Glasgow architect of the 19th century, also called John Baird Primus by Thomas Gildard (from the book ''An Old Glasgow Architect on some Older Ones'') in order for people to be able distinguish him from a second John Baird (1816-93). He was an influential figure in the development of Glasgow’s late Georgian architecture, Georgian and early Victorian architecture, Victorian Architecture. He was responsible for around 40 projects and worked in the "background" compared to other Glasgow architects. Life and work John Baird was born in the village of Dalmuir, Dunbartonshire (now part of the town of Clydebank). He was the son of Thomas Baird, a Wright, and Agnes Baird, and he was the elder brother of another architect with the name of Anthony Baird (practised, 1834-5). At the age of 15, he started training as an architect with a relative of his named John Shepherd, of John Shepherd & Co., which was a firm that consisted of architects and propert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baird (Scottish Divine)
John Baird (17 February 1799 – 29 November 1861), was a Scottish divine. Life John Baird was the eldest son of the Rev. James Baird, who was successively minister of Legerwood, Eccles, and Swinton, all in Berwickshire. John was born at Eccles, and educated at the Whitsome and Kelso grammar schools. Later he proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, where, in 1823, he founded the Plinian Society for the study of natural history, and was its first president. Going to Ireland in 1825, he was for some time engaged by the Irish Evangelical Society as one of their preachers. In 1829, he was ordained minister of Yetholm, Roxburghshire, the eventual place of his death. A colony of gipsies, as they were then called, had long been settled at Kirk Yetholm. Baird set himself resolutely to make them Christians and, in the eyes of many at the time, useful members of society as a result. The work was done in connection with a society formed in Edinburgh for the 'Reformation of the Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baird (Irish Divine)
John Baird, D.D. (died 1804), was an Irish divine. Baird came to Dublin from the Isle of Man, and was ordained minister of the Presbyterian congregation of Capel Street on 11 January 1767. Here he ministered for ten years despondently, and in 1777, was compelled to resign, and was replaced by Rev. Benjamin McDowell. Shortly after resigning, he brought out the first and only volume of a projected series on the Old Testament; a work of previous learning, originally delivered as lectures at Capel Street, and dedicated it (12 November 1777) to James Trail, bishop of Down The Bishop of Down was an episcopal title which took its name from the town of Downpatrick in Northern Ireland. The bishop's seat (Cathedra) was located on the site of the present cathedral church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the Church .... Baird soon afterwards conformed, and on 7 September 1782 was appointed by the crown to the rectory of Cloghran Parish Church (Church of Ireland), Cloghran, near D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baird (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir John Kennedy Erskine Baird, KCB was an officer in the Royal Navy, who is chiefly remembered for commanding the losing side in the 1888 annual naval manoeuvres. Early life Baird was born on 16 September 1832, the fourth son of Sir David Baird, 2nd Baronet (see Baird baronets) and Lady Anne Baird (née Kennedy). Naval career Baird entered the Navy in December 1845. He was promoted to lieutenant on 28 February 1854. On 3 July 1857 he was promoted to commander. In 1858, he commanded the paddle-sloop ''Devastation'' on the North America and West Indies station. From 23 December 1859 to August 1863 he commanded the screw gun-vessel ''Alacrity'' in the Mediterranean. Baird was promoted captain on 16 February 1864.''The Navy List, July 1885, corrected to 20 June 1885'', page 71. From 8 March 1870 he commanded the screw-corvette ''Juno'' on the China station until she paid off at Sheerness on 14 June 1873. He commanded the ironclad battleship ''Swiftsure'' from 1874 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baird (revolutionary)
John Baird (born 1 September 1790, died in Stirling, 8 September 1820) was a Scottish revolutionary. A weaver by trade, he was brought up in the village of Condorrat. He is best remembered as a radical commander in the "Radical War" of 1820, and along with James Wilson and Andrew Hardie is the best remembered radical combatant in the "Radical War". Baird had a military career in the British Army, serving in the 2nd Battalion of the 95th Regiment of Foot (known as the Rifle Brigade) seeing military action in both Argentina and Spain. His military experience meant that he was suitable to become commander of the Radicals in their doomed march to the Carron Ironworks. He was sentenced to death and was executed outside Stirling Tolbooth on 8 September 1820 along with Hardie. He is remembered as a martyr to the fight for universal suffrage Universal suffrage (also called universal franchise, general suffrage, and common suffrage of the common man) gives the right to vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baird (RAF Officer)
Air Marshal Sir John Alexander Baird, (25 July 1937 – 12 November 2020) was a British physician and a retired Royal Air Force medical officer who served as Surgeon-General of the British Armed Forces from 1997 to 2000. Baird was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours. He was appointed Commander of the Order of St John (CStJ) in 1997 Honour Ribbons: *: Order of the British Empire (KBE) *: Venerable Order of St John The Order of St John, short for Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (french: l'ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem) and also known as St John International, is a British royal order of c .... (CStJ) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Baird, John Surgeons-General of the British Armed Forces Royal Air Force air marshals Royal Air Force Medical Service officers Deputy Lieutenants of Cambridgeshire Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baird (educator)
John Baird (1795–1858) was born and educated in Graffa, Ireland. He was a son of William Baird and Susan Teel. He was recruited there by the British Army as a teacher. Early life He got education at Graffa and later in the town of Monaghan. Then he entered the Seminary for School Masters in County Kildare. Career In 1817 the 74th Foot was stationed in the County and their commander, Colonel Sir Robert Trench, visited the seminary in search for the student teachers to join his regiment, which sailed for British North America. Baird agreed and was supposed to serve for seven years as a teacher. He got the pay and rank of a sergeant, and after expiring of his term he would get a crown land. In 1818 they were stationed in Fredericton, New Brunswick where he would teach the children of the regiment and the poor and black of the area. In 1823 he was released from the army and his family and other disbanded soldiers took up army granted land in the parish of Kent. Bairdsville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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