Henry Martyn Baird

Henry Martyn Baird (1832–1906) was an American historian and the leading English-language authority of his day on the Huguenots, from whom he was descended. Born in Philadelphia, he spent part of his youth in France and Switzerland, graduated from New York University, and taught Greek at New York University from 1859 until his death. His History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France appeared in 1879, followed by The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, a trilogy that occupied him for thirty years.