Baird was born in Edinburgh, the daughter of William Baird and Jane King Mitchell Baird. She was an educator who taught at North Fort Street School in
Edinburgh. Later, she taught Esperanto at
Leith's Technical College. Baird learned the International auxiliary language
Esperanto. She joined the Edinburgh Esperanto Society in 1909, 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, inviting children to send her postcards with their answers to Esperanto questions. She was on the organising committee of the 1926 World Esperanto Congress in Edinburgh. 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. 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. == Publications ==