George Husband Baird

(1761-1840)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Baird, George Husband, 1761-1840 NRA: Baird George Husband (1761-1840) Principal of Edinburgh University DNB: Baird, George Husband (1761-1840), Church of Scotland minister and university principal, LBT ID: GeBaird1840 VIAF ID: 57048508 LOC ID: n87818735	B/BAP: 1761-07-13 DIED: 1840-01-14
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Principal of Edinburgh University in succession to William Robertson (1793) and minister of the High Church in succession to Hugh Blair (1801); he befriended his pupil Henry Brougham.
REFERENCES TO George Husband Baird: Hogg, James, 1770-1835, “Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 2 (October 1817) 89-96 Found 1: ¶ 162 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1832 Found 1: ¶ 36