Thom's Irish Who's Who/Baird, Sir Robert Hugh Hanley

BAIRD, Sir Robert Hugh Hanley, K.B.E. (1921). D.L. for Belfast; Managing Director, W. and G. Baird, Ltd., "Belfast Telegraph"; controls "Belfast Telegraph," and founded and controls "Irish Daily Telegraph." 1904; "Ireland's Saturday Night," 1894; "Belfast Weekly Telegraph," "Larne Times," 1891; "Ballymena Weekly Telegraph," 1887; Member of Board of Management, Royal Victoria Hospital: President of the Master Printers' Federation, 1910; President Irish Newspaper Society, 1913; Chairman of Ulster District Institute of Journalists, 1910; Past S.G.W. of Masonic Province of Antrim; Life Governor of Masonic Orphan Boys' and Girls' Schools, Dublin, and Member of 30 Degree; Life Member, Newspaper Press Fund; Irish representative, Admiralty, War Office, and Press Committee, since its formation, 1910; b. 1855. Res.: Park Lodge, Cave Hill, Belfast.