1. | David (3rd Bt of Newbyth) Baird was born on 26 Jan 1832 (son of Sir David (2nd Bt of Newbyth) Baird and Lady Anne Kennedy); died on 13 Oct 1913. Notes:
Lennoxlove, seat of the Dukes of Hamilton
The property was purchased by the trustees of Frances Teresa Stuart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox
following her death in 1702 for the benefit of her "neare and deare kinsman the said Walter Stuart". Walter
Stuart was the eldest son of Alexander, 5th Lord Blantyre, and was to become the 6th Lord Blantyre on the
death of his father in 1704. The Duchess had stipulated that the property be called "Lennox's Love to
Blantyre", this was subsequently shortened to Lennoxlove. It remained in the ownership of the BlantyreStewarts for almost two centuries. When the 12th Lord Blantyre died in 1900 without male heirs, the property
passed into the ownership of his daughter, Ellen Stewart, and her husband Sir David Baird, 3rd Baronet of
Newbyth, Prestonkirk. Their younger son, Major William Baird, commissioned the architect Sir Robert Lorimer
to oversee extensive refurbishment of the house in 1912. Lennoxlove is now the seat of the Dukes of
Hamilton, having been purchased by the 14th Duke in 1946.
David married Hon. Ellen Stuart on 15 Jun 1864. Ellen (daughter of Charles (12th Lord Blantyre) Stuart and Evelyn Levenson-Gower) was born on 31 Aug 1846; died on 19 Apr 1927. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- David (4th Baronet of New Byth) Baird, MVO, JP, DL was born in 1865; died in 1941.
- William Arthur Baird was born on 20 Mar 1879; died on 6 Jun 1933.
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