. I Bairds di Gartsherrie. Alcuni avvisi della loro origine e storia . Kirkwood, 29 dicembre 1799. Come è stato allarreyexplained nella narrativa, raramente si occupava delle ferri - il suo impiego era la gestione del reparto di salefazione del carbone e del ferro - una sfera importante, i cui compiti si dimettero con singolare abilità. Ha cacciato, nel 1854, la proprietà di Urie, a Kincardineshire, dagli esecutori del defunto Robert Barclay Allardice. Questa proprietà si trova vicino a Stonehaven e si trova su entrambe le rive del Theriver Covie. Era stato acquistato duecento anni prima dal colonnello David

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. The Bairds of Gartsherrie. Some notices of their origin and history . Kirkwood, 29th December, 1799. As alreadyexplained in the narrative, he was seldom about the ironworks—his employment being the management of the saledepartment of the coal and iron—an important sphere, theduties of which he discharged with singular ability. He pur-chased, in 1854, the estate of Urie, in Kincardineshire, fromthe Executors of the late Robert Barclay Allardice. This fineestate is situated near Stonehaven and lies on both banks of theriver Cowie. It had been purchased two hundred years before byColonel David Barclay, father of Robert Barclay, the well knownauthor of the Apology for the Quakers. He was the firstof that sect who had ever been received at the English Court:Mr. John Bright was the second. His descendant, CaptainBarclay Allardice, from whose executors Alexander Baird pur-chased the estate, is remembered in sporting circles for his un-precedented feat—in 1809—of walking a thousand miles in athousand consecutive hours—one mile in each hour. Mr. Baird. IDO I THE BAIRDS OF GARTSHERRIE. 103 built the present house of Urie, a fine baronial residence ofwhich a view is annexed. He also erected the new bridgeover the river Cowie, and made numerous other additions, useful and ornamental, to the estate. In 1860 he increasedthe property by the purchase of about a thousand acres fromMr. Patrick Keith Murray of Dunottar. He was elected a member of the Town Council of Glasgowin November, 1841, and on the 5th of that month he wasappointed Bailie of the River and Frith of Clyde. He retiredfrom the Town Council in November, 1843. He was in1856 appointed a Depute-Lieutenant of the County of Kin-cardine. He was also a Director of the Forth and ClydeCanal. By his Deed of Settlement, he directed his Trustees to executea deed of entail of the estate of Urie, in favour of his brotherJohn, and a series of heirs who are required to bear thename and arms of Baird of Urie. Of the remainde

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