Robert Caird

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

LLD (died 1 December 1915 in

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) was a Scottish shipbuilder. He joined the family firm

Caird and Company Caird & Company was a Scottish shipbuilding and engineering firm based in Greenock. The company was established in 1828 by John Caird when he received an order to re-engine River Clyde, Clyde paddle-tugs. John's relative James Tennant Caird joine ...

in 1888, later rising to become head of the company.

Life and career

Robert Caird was born in either 1851 or 1852. He went to school in Greenock and later attended the University of Glasgow. After completing his education, Caird went to Italy and then to the United States, where he was employed by the Pullman Car Company, "and got an insight into American business methods". Robert Caird returned to Greenock shortly before his father's death in 1888 and joined the family firm. He was president of the Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland (1899–1901). He was proposed for fellowship of the

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by Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), Andrew Wilson, Sir I Bayley Balfour and Sir

Archibald Denny Sir Archibald Denny, 1st Baronet FRSE LLD (1860–1935), was a Scottish naval architect who was owner of the huge Clyde shipbuilding company of William Denny and Brothers and was granted a baronetcy in 1913, thereby giving birth to the Denny baro ...

, and was elected on 7 December 1896. He was awarded an LLD by the University of Glasgow in 1900.

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Year of birth missing Place of birth missing 1915 deaths 19th-century Scottish businesspeople 20th-century Scottish businesspeople Presidents of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish shipbuilders Scottish businesspeople Alumni of the University of Glasgow People from Greenock {{Scotland-business-bio-stub