Hugh Baird (engineer)

[1] In 1799 he was a Burgess of Glasgow town council and is listed with his brother as "H & R Baird Enginners" at Hamilton Hill on the Old Canal Basin.

Baird was appointed resident engineer to the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1812, on a salary of £250 a year.

Alternative designs included schemes by John Rennie and Robert Stevenson,[3] as well as earlier proposals by Ainslie and Whitworth (1797).

[1] Thomas Telford supported Baird's proposal in 1815, and an act of Parliament was passed two years later.

His son, Nicol Hugh Baird (1796–1849), emigrated to Canada, where he worked on a number of canal projects.