page_title: Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: General Sir David Baird by Lawrence MacDonald 1828
context_page_description: General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet, GCB was a British Army officer.
context_section_description: Sir David Baird was the fifth son of an Edinburgh merchant,  William Baird of Newbyth, who was grandson of Sir Robert Baird, Bart., of Saughton, and cousin and heir of Sir John Baird, Bart., of Newbyth, and Alicia Johnston.
  Sir David married Anne Preston Menzies Campbell Preston, daughter and heiress of Major Patrick Preston, Younger of Valleyfield, on 4 August 1810.
  He died on 18 August 1829 at age 71, without issue, and was succeeded by his nephew, David, the son of Robert Baird and Hersey Christina Maria Gavin.
  His widow erected an obelisk to him on a hillock above Trowan near Crieff. On the south side of the monument is a plaque commemorating the march of the Anglo-Indian army across the Great desert from Kosseir to Alexandria 1801.
caption: Sculpture of Baird by Lawrence Macdonald, 1828
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