My indistinct memory is that Baird figures in Sidsel Eriksen's wonderful paper explaining why temperance took a strong hold in Sweden but not in Denmark: Drunken Danes and sober Swedes? Religious revivalism and the temperance movements as keys to Danish and Swedish folk cultures, pp. 55-94 in Bo Strath, ed., Language and Construction of Class Identities: The Struggle for Discursive Power in Social Organization:Scandinavia and Germany after 1800 (Gothenburg, 1990). Eriksen's fax, as of a while ago, is +45-32-36 44 06. Pinson mentions Baird as having inspired the earliest abstinence society in Iceland: Ann Pinson, Temperance, prohibition and politics in nineteenth-century Iceland, Contemporary Drug Problems 12:249-266, 1985 (at p. 256). -- Robin Room