Jane Baird
Jane Baird | |
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.jpg) Baird at the 1912 World Esperanto Congress in Kraków, Poland | |
| Born | 6 May 1875 Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. |
| Died | 25 March 1960 (aged 84) Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, Esperantist |
| Employer | North Fort Street School |
Jane Baird (6 May 1875 – 25 March 1960) was a Scottish educator and Esperantist. She was one of the three compilers of the Edinburgh Esperanto Pocket Dictionary (1915).
Biography
[edit]Baird was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of William Baird and Jane King Mitchell Baird.[1] She was an educator who taught at North Fort Street School in Edinburgh.[2] Later, she taught Esperanto at Leith Technical College.[3]
Baird learned the International auxiliary language Esperanto. She joined the Edinburgh Esperanto Society in 1909,[2] and later served as vice-president.[4] She attended the 1912 World Esperanto Congress in Kraków, Poland, with fellow society members. She organised a monthly contest that ran for six years until the end 1922,[5] inviting children to send her postcards with their answers to Esperanto questions.[6] She was on the organising committee of the 1926 World Esperanto Congress in Edinburgh.[7]
Baird was one of the three compilers of the Edinburgh Esperanto Pocket Dictionary, working along with John Mabon Warden [pl] and William Harvey. It was first published in 1915.[8] By the time of her death over a hundred thousand copies of the Dictionary had been sold in English-speaking countries.
Baird died in 1960, aged 84, at a nursing home in Edinburgh.[2][9]
Publications
[edit]- "Notes for an Object Lesson" (1915, The Esperanto Monthly)[10]
References
[edit]- ^ 1881, 1891, and 1901 Scotland Censuses, via Ancestry.
- ^ a b c The Scottish Educational Journal. Vol. 43. Educational Institute of Scotland. 1 April 1960. p. 268.
- ^ Oliver and Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository. 1920. p. 1102.
- ^ British Esperantist (in Esperanto). Vol. 8. British Esperanto Association. 1912. p. 14.
- ^ "Month by Month". The British Esperantist. 18 (213): 114. December 1922.
- ^ "Competition for Boys and Girls Conducted by Miss Jane Baird". The British Esperantist. 16 (186): 85. June 1920.
- ^ "Universala Kongreso de Esperanto". International Language. 2 (12): 298. December 1925.
- ^ "The Edinburgh Vortareto". Amerika Esperantisto. 18 (6): 30. May–June 1916.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 for Jane Baird; via Ancestry.
- ^ Baird, Jane (March–April 1915). "Notes for an Object Lesson". The Esperanto Monthly. 3 (27): 52.
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