From:
"richard baird" <bairdman@optusnet.com.au>
To:
<nstreat@dccnet.com>
Subject:
bishop family tree
Date: Tue,
29 Apr 2003 00:12:03 +1000
I am
writing in response to your letter. I have visited the web site and have some
details for the Peter Orlebar Bishop of Australia side of the family.
I can also
email pictures if you like.
Peter Orlebar was born
14th June 1917 and is still going strong.
He is married to Hilare Holmes b 1920, who is also still going strong. Peter's first daughter Phillippa was born
20th November 1943 and married to Douglas Kevin Baird b 20th June 1940, d 16th
November 1995. Roderick also born 14th
June 1957 (his father's 40th birthday).
Roderick
has two daughters Madeleine Bishop b 1995 and Helen Bishop b1998. Roderick is married to Margaret Wallen. Richard Baird (myself) is married to
Jeannine Hopkins (8th July 1975) and we have 1 daughter Grace Elodie Baird (b
10th March 2000). Mark Baird is married
to Virginia Birch and they have 1 daughter Miriam Hope Baird born 24th April
2003 (very recent news).
Thank-you
for your work I find it very interesting
Yours
Faithfully
Richard
Baird
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From: "richard baird"
<bairdman@optusnet.com.au>
To: "Norman Streat" <nstreat@dccnet.com>
Cc: "Jane Baird" <janebaird@hotmail.com>,
"Louise Baird" <lubaird@hotmail.com>,
"Ginny
Baird" <vbaird@gmp.usyd.edu.au>, <mbaird@maths.unsw.edu.au>,
"Rod
Bishop" <bishopr@ibm.net>, <phillippabaird@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bishop family tree
Dear Norman,
Great to get your email, and I can see that it is you that
have done the work on the web site so thank-you.
My grandfather Peter O Bishop has indeed written a family
history that borrowed very heavily I believe on your wife's uncles work. With the contact due to the will of Sydney
Olive Bishop he found Victor and they met in England (I need to confirm this
point). He used Victor's research to go back to all the Richard Bishop's and
then added from his own research on his closer relatives. I shall try and scan
in relevant pages and send it to you.
Peter O Bishop himself is a very interesting person and
famous Australian scientist. A
Professor of Physiology at Sydney University and the Australian National
University, he was awarded the Australia prize which is the highest honour that
Australia bestows on scientists and is a Fellow of the Royal Society in
England.
Below is a link to an interview he gave in 1996. He mentions
Herbert Orlebar Bishop his grandfather, who arrived in Australia in 1870.
http://www.science.org.au/scientists/pb.htm
My brother Mark Edward Baird is also a scientist. You will be able to tell from the photo he
is much younger, and has his own web site as well
http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/~mbaird
My Father, Douglas Kevin Baird, husband of Phillippa Leslie
Bishop (daughter of Peter Bishop), is also an interesting character, having
been a Heart Surgeon and Chairman of a major teaching hospital's board and on
the senate of the University of Sydney for a short time. On the 20th June, his birthday,
there is the launch of an institute in his name for research into Heart and
Lung Surgery Techniques. It is to be
opened by the Governor of NSW. Sadly Dad passed away at the relative young age
of 55 from liver cancer in 1995.
The institute has a web site that is just being set up: http://www.bairdinstitute.com.au/
His Eulogy was written by a high profile Judge and friend
and can be found at the following site to give more history on dad: http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/resources/kirby/papers/19951212_baird.html
You might gather a leaning toward medicine in the family. In fact Roderick Bishop, my uncle is an
emergency room director in a major Sydney Hospital having spent most of his
career so far in Emergency Medicine, his wife Margaret an Occupational
therapist, Louise my sister is a first year out of university doctor and
Virginia, married to my brother Mark, is a third year medical student already
with a PhD in Pharmacology and an honours degree in Medical Science. Add to
that Phillippa Leslie and Hilare (Peter's wife) were nurses.
Myself, I am an Electrical Engineer working for a
pharmaceutical company, Baxter Healthcare.
Richard Baird
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