Sir Robert Baird, 1st Baronet

Sir Robert Baird (1630–1697) was a Scottish merchant, landowner, and investor in colonial enterprise in the Province of Carolina.[1]

The grounds of Baird's Saughtonhall are now a public park.
The Hope foundered on the sands of Cairnbulg near Fraserburgh in October 1669.
Robert Baird and the partners of the Carolina Society sent Patrick Crawford to map the Ashley River.
  1. ^ Linda G. Fryer, 'Documents relating to the formation of the Carolina Company in Scotland, 1682', South Carolina Historical Magazine, 99 (1998), pp. 110-34 at pp. 123, 126.