Andrew Wilson Baird ( 1842 - 1908 )

Birth: Aberdeen, Scotland (26 April 1842) Death: London (02 April 1908) Burial Place: Highgate Cemetery, London 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 Membership: Fellow Election Date: 4/06/1885.