On 3rd December 1833 John Aird 1st Baronet was born to John Aird Mason [aged 27].
On 6th September 1855 John Aird 1st Baronet [aged 21] and Sarah Smith of Lewisham Lady Aird were married. They had eight children.
In 1861 [his son] John Aird 2nd Baronet was born to John Aird 1st Baronet [aged 27] and [his wife] Sarah Smith of Lewisham Lady Aird. He married in or before 1898 Alicia Ellen Renton Lady Aird and had issue.
In 1876 [his father] John Aird Mason [aged 70] died.
In 1887 John Aird 1st Baronet [aged 53] was elected MP Paddington North which seat he held until 1906.
1888. Lawrence Alma-Tadema [aged 51]. "The Roses of Heliogabalus". The painting depicts a, probably invented, episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus, taken from the Augustan History. Alma-Tadema depicts Elagabalus smothering his unsuspecting guests with rose petals released from a false ceiling. The original references are:
He used to strew roses and all manner of flowers ... over his banqueting-rooms, his couches and his porticoes.
In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once buried his guests in violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top.
Stravit et triclinia de rosa et lectos et porticus.
Oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent.
The painting was commissioned by Sir John Aird [aged 54], 1st Baronet for £4,000 in 1888.
In or before 1898 [his son] John Aird 2nd Baronet [aged 36] and [his daughter-in-law] Alicia Ellen Renton Lady Aird [aged 32] were married.
In 1900 John Aird 1st Baronet [aged 66] was appointed Mayor of Metropolitan Borough of Paddington.
In 1901 John Aird 1st Baronet [aged 67] was appointed Mayor of Metropolitan Borough of Paddington.
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On 5th March 1901 John Aird 1st Baronet [aged 67] was created 1st Baronet Aird of Hyde Park Terrace in Paddington in the County of London.
On 4th April 1909 [his wife] Sarah Smith of Lewisham Lady Aird died. She was buried at St Anne's Church, Dropmore [Map].
On 6th January 1911 John Aird 1st Baronet [aged 77] died at his home Wilton Park. He was buried at St Anne's Church, Dropmore [Map]. His son John [aged 50] succeeded 2nd Baronet Aird of Hyde Park Terrace in Paddington in the County of London. Alicia Ellen Renton Lady Aird [aged 46] by marriage Lady Aird of Hyde Park Terrace in Paddington in the County of London.