Cecil James Mullo Weir (4 December 1897 – 4 March 1995) was a Scottish academic and theologian, who was Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages at the University of Glasgow from 1937 until 1968.
[1][2] After the war, he returned to university and was awarded a first-class Master of Arts degree in classics 1923.
After a period as minister of Orwell in Kinross-shire between 1932 and 1934, Weir moved to the University of Liverpool as Rankin Lecturer and head of the department of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages.
In 1937, he was appointed Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages at the University of Glasgow, a post he held until 1968.
[1] Weir's publications included A Lexicon of Accadian Prayers in the Rituals of Expiation (1934).