Editing John Logie Baird (section)

==Early years==
Baird was born on 13 August 1888 in [[Helensburgh]], Dunbartonshire, and was the youngest of four children of the Reverend John Baird, the [[Church of Scotland]]'s minister for the local St Bride's Church, and Jessie Morrison Inglis, the orphaned niece of the wealthy [[A. & J. Inglis|Inglis]] family of shipbuilders from [[Glasgow]].<ref>Burns, John Logie Baird, television pioneer p.1</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml|title=BBC – History – John Logie Baird}}</ref>

He was educated at [[Larchfield Academy]] (now part of [[Lomond School]]) in Helensburgh; the [[University of Strathclyde|Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College]]; and the [[University of Glasgow]]. While at college, Baird undertook a series of engineering apprentice jobs as part of his course. The conditions in industrial Glasgow at the time helped form his socialist convictions but also contributed to his ill health. He became an agnostic, though this did not strain his relationship with his father.<ref>R. W. Burns (2000). John Logie Baird, Television Pioneer. IET. p. 10. {{ISBN|9780852967973}}. "Even Baird's conversion to agnosticism while living at home does not appear to have stimulated a rebuke from the Reverend John Baird. Moreover, Baird was freely allowed to try to persuade others—including visiting clergy—to his beliefs."</ref> His degree course was interrupted by the [[First World War]] and he never returned to graduate.

At the beginning of 1915 he volunteered for service in the British Army but was classified as unfit for active duty. Unable to go to the front, he took a job with the Clyde Valley Electrical Power Company, which was engaged in munitions work.<ref>T. McArthur and P. Waddell, ''Vision Warrior'', Orkney Press, 1990</ref>{{page needed|date=September 2021}}