Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet, of Newbyth, GCB was a British Army officer.
Portrait by John Watson Gordon, c. 1825
Baird discovered the body of Tipu Sultan after storming Seringapatam. Engraved from an 1839 painting by David Wilkie.
Detail. Gold sword's hit, inlaid with enamel and diamonds. Presented to Sir David Baird by his officers to commemorate his victory at Seringapatam. From England, 1799 AD. National Museum of Scotland
Sculpture of Baird by Lawrence Macdonald, 1828
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was an Anglo-Irish statesman, soldier, and Tory politician who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom. He is among the commanders who won and ended the Napoleonic Wars when the Seventh Coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Wellesley spent much of his early childhood at his family's ancestral home, Dangan Castle in County Meath, Ireland (engraving, 1842).
Beginning in 1787, Wellesley served at Dublin Castle (pictured) as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieutenant of Ireland
Wellesley as Lieutenant Colonel, aged c. 26, in the 33rd Regiment. Portrait by John Hoppner.
Wellesley in India, wearing his major-general's uniform. Portrait by Robert Home, 1804.
