Viscount Weir, of
Eastwood Eastwood may refer to:
Places
;in Australia
*Eastwood, New South Wales
**Eastwood railway station
**Electoral district of Eastwood
*Eastwood, South Australia
;in Canada
* Eastwood, Ontario
*Eastwood, Edmonton, Alberta, a neighborhood
;in the Ph ...
in the
County of Renfrew
Renfrewshire or the County of Renfrew is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It contains the local government council areas of Inverclyde, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire, as ...
, is a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 25 June 1938 for the Scottish businessman, public servant, politician and former
President of the Air Council,
William Weir, 1st Baron Weir. He had already been created Baron Weir, of Eastwood in the County of
Renfrew, on 26 June 1918, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
the titles are held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1975.
The family previously owned
Montgreenan Estate, near
Torranyard
Torranyard is a small village or hamlet in North Ayrshire, Parish of Kilwinning, Scotland. It lies between the settlements of Auchentiber and Irvine on the A736 Lochlibo Road.
History
Torranyard is a hamlet at what is now a crossroads on the ...
,
Ayrshire.
Viscounts Weir (1938)
*
William Douglas Weir, 1st Viscount Weir (1877–1959)
*
James Kenneth Weir
James Kenneth Weir, 2nd Viscount Weir CBE FRSE LLD (1905–1975) was a 20th-century Scottish peer and businessman, most famously chairing the Weir Group.
Life
He was born on 10 September 1905 the son of William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir, Willia ...
, 2nd Viscount Weir
FRSE (1905–1975)
*William Kenneth James Weir, 3rd Viscount Weir (b. 1933)
The
heir apparent
An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who is first in the order of succession but can be displaced by the b ...
is the present holder's son, the Hon. James William Hartland Weir (b. 1965)
Arms
Notes
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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Viscountcies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Noble titles created in 1938