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Weir was a director of Great
Northern Investment Trust from 1970 to 1980 and of St James's Place Capital from 1972 to 1976. He was chief executive of Weir Group PLC between 1972 and 1981, chairman of the British Bank of the Middle East between 1977 and 1979, and vice-chairman and then chairman of the
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