James Kenneth Weir

He was born on 10 September 1905 the son of William Weir, and his wife, Alice Blanche MacConnachie.

[2] James was educated at Oundle School in Northamptonshire then studied at Cambridge University graduating BA in 1926.

His proposers were Robert Silver, Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno, Anthony Elliot Ritchie and Thomas Diery Patten.

[3] He married twice: firstly in 1929 to Dorothy Isabel Lucy Crowdy, and following Lucy's death in 1972 the following year he married Mrs Dorothy Hutton (née Dear), a widow.

Through his first wife he was related to James Fuidge Crowdy, Assistant Secretary to the Governor General of Canada and Charles Keefer, one of the prominent civil engineers of Canada.