She was a recipient of the Silver Fish Award, the Girl Guiding Association's (GGA) highest adult honour, in 1922.

She was one of twins born to Jonathan Peel Baird (1844-1915), manager of the Earl of Home's Lanarkshire estate,[2] and Emily Diana Frances.

[3] Baird was one of ten children, including five sisters: Helen, Katherine (known as Katrine, her twin), Mary, Diana and Constance.

The ship's owner, Sir John Cadman, had a daughter at St James' School.

[10][11] In 1896, together with her twin sister, Katrine, Baird established St James' School for girls, initially in Southbourne-on-Sea.

[18] Baird would visit them at their home, Pax Hill, and in 1929, when recovering from an operation, she joined them on a cruise around West Africa.