| Authorised form of name | Baird; Andrew Wilson (1842 - 1908) |
| Dates | 1842 - 1908 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Date of birth | 26 April 1842 |
| Place of death | London |
| Date of death | 02/04/1908 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
Highgate Cemetery, London |
| Activity | 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
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 04/06/1885 |
| Relationships | 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 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1909 vol 82 pp xvii-xxi signed by G H D |
| Royal Society code | NA6677 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| NLB/2/891 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Major Andrew Wilson Baird, Fellow of the Royal Society | 7 December 1888 |
| NLB/18/214 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messr Harrison & Sons | 8 February 1899 |
| NLB/37/751 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George H [Howard] Darwin, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society | 8 May 1908 |
| NLB/37/705 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir George Darwin, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 May 1908 |
| NLB/37/732 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir G [George] H [Howard] Darwin, KCB, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 May 1908 |
| RR/9/197 | Letter from Andrew Wilson Baird, on his paper 'Report on the tidal disturbances caused by the volcanic eruptions at Java, August 27 and 28, 1883, and the propagations of the ‘super-tidal’ waves' to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 9 June 1884 |
| EC/1885/03 | Baird, Andrew Wilson: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MS/517/9 | 'Report on the Tidal Disturbances caused by the Volcanic Eruptions at Java 27th and 28th August 1883' by Major A Baird | 1884 |
| AP/63/6 | Unpublished paper, 'Report on tidal disturbances caused by volcanic eruptions at Java 26th - 27th August 1883 and the propagations of the "supertidal" waves' by [Andrew Wilson] Baird | 4 December 1883 |
| PP/13/36 | Paper, 'Second series of results of the harmonic analysis of tidal observations' by G H [George Howard] Darwin | 1889 |
| MC/14/62 | Letter from Andrew Wilson Baird, Her Majesty's Mint, Calcutta, to [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society | 10 July 1885 |
| RR/9/196 | Referee's report by Richard Strachey, on a paper 'Report on the tidal disturbances caused by the volcanic eruptions at Java, August 27 and 28, 1883, and the propagations of the ‘super-tidal’ waves' by Andrew Wilson Baird | 20 March 1884 |
| MC/14 | Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1885-1888 |