Education
University of Glasgow.
University of Glasgow.
He joined the family firm Caird and Company in 1888, later rising to become head of the company. He was President of the Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland (1899-1901). He was proposed for fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh by Sir William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), Andrew Wilson, Sir I Bayley Balfour and Sir Archibald Denny, and was elected on 7 December 1896.
He was awarded an Doctor of Laws by the University of Glasgow in 1900.