Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet was an English civil engineering contractor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also served as Conservative Member of Parliament for Paddington North from 1887 to
Aird in his late years
The 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park
John Aird & Co.
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John Aird & Co. was once a leading British civil engineering business based in London.
Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet
…1806–1876) – who was superintendent of the Phoenix Gas Company's gasworks in Greenwich, south-east London before setting up his own contracting business, John Aird & Co., in 1848. On his 18th birthday in 1851, Aird junior joined the family firm – which subsequently traded as John Aird & Sons for a while. The business…
Aswan Low Dam built by John Aird & Co.