. Die Bairds von Gartsherrie. Einige Hinweise auf ihre Herkunft und Geschichte . Kirkwood, 29. Dezember 1799. Wie bereits in der Erzählung erklärt, ging es ihm selten um die Eisenhütte – seine Beschäftigung war die Leitung der Saleabteilung für Kohle und Eisen – eine wichtige Sphäre, deren Aufgaben er mit einzigartiger Fähigkeit übernahm. Er jagte 1854 das Anwesen von Urie in Kincardineshire von den Vollstreckern des verstorbenen Robert Barclay Allardice. Das Anwesen liegt in der Nähe von Stonehaven und liegt an beiden Ufern des Theriver Cowie. Es war zweihundert Jahre zuvor von Colonel David gekauft worden

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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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