Person Baird; Andrew Wilson (1842 - 1908) Baird Andrew Wilson 1842 - 1908 British Male Aberdeen, Scotland 26 April 1842 London 02/04/1908 19080402 Burial: Highgate Cemetery, London

Poona, India (1881)

Education: Grammar School, Aberdeen; Marischal College, Aberdeen; Military Academy, Addiscombe (1860); transferred to Military Academy, Woolwich Career: Obtained a comission in the Royal Engineers (1861); went to India (1864); served in the Abyssinian expedition under Lord Napier (FRS 1869); Assistant Superintendent, Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (1869); made tidal observations by harmonic analysis in England (1870) and on the Gulf of Cutch (1872); Major (by 1881); Mint Master, Calcutta (1889-1897); died of heart failure Honours: CSI 1897 Memberships: AICE Eldest son of Thomas Baird of Aberdeen and his wife Catherine Imray; married (14 March 1872, Aberdeen) Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Davidson of Aberdeen Fellow 04/06/1885 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series A 1909 vol 82 pp xvii-xxi signed by G H D International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 26 Apr 1842 - 2 Apr 1908 NA6677 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 32015483-56fc-4499-b3d3-58a749a87037