His father, John Baird (1798-1870) JP of Easterhouse, husband of Margaret Findlay, had inherited the Urie estate from his childless brother Alexander (1799-1862).
He was the elder brother of John Baird, DL, JP, Member of Parliament for North West Lanarkshire.
He built Ury House, Stonehaven, which eventually passed into the ownership of the Earls of Kintore.
Baird was created a Baronet, of Urie, in the Parish of Fetteresso, in the County of Kincardine, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, on 8 March 1897[2] and appointed a Knight-Grand-Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours for his services in Egypt.
Annette Palk, the eldest daughter of the 1st Baron Haldon, on 16 July 1873, and they had seven children: Nina Isabel Baird ran a carpet factory in Amria, where she employed roughly 300 local women whose husbands had joined the Senussi rebel movement.