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Viscount Weir, of Eastwood in the County of Renfrew, 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. As of 2010 the titles are held by his grandson, the third Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1975.

The family previously owned Montgreenan Estate, near Torranyard, Ayrshire.

Viscounts Weir (1938)

• William Douglas Weir, 1st Viscount Weir (1877–1959)
• James Kenneth Weir, 2nd Viscount Weir FRSE (1905–1975)
• William Kenneth James Weir, 3rd Viscount Weir (b. 1933)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son, the Hon. James William Hartland Weir (b. 1965)

Arms

Coat of arms of Viscount Weir

Coronet A Coronet of a Viscount Crest A Wing Argent charge with a Thistle slipped proper Escutcheon Azure a Cogwheel Or winged Argent in chief the Sun in Splendour of the second Supporters On either side a Winged Horse Argent hoofed and crined Or Motto Forward Towards The Light

Notes

1. "No. 34527". The London Gazette. 1 July 1938. p. 4239.
2. "No. 30787". The London Gazette. 9 July 1918. p. 8063.

References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

v t e Extant viscountcies in the peerages of Britain and Ireland
Sorted by kingdom in which created, then creation date
England	Hereford
Scotland	Falkland Arbuthnott Oxfuird
Great Britain	Bolingbroke St John Cobham Falmouth Torrington Hood
Ireland	Gormanston Mountgarret Valentia Dillon Massereene Charlemont Downe Molesworth Chetwynd Midleton Boyne Gage Galway Powerscourt Ashbrook Southwell de Vesci Lifford Bangor Doneraile Harberton Hawarden Ferrard Monck Gort
United Kingdom	St Vincent Melville Sidmouth Exmouth Combermere Hill Hardinge Bridport Portman Hampden Hambleden Knutsford Esher Goschen Ridley Colville of Culross Selby Knollys Allendale Chilston Scarsdale Mersey Cowdray Devonport Astor Wimborne St Davids Rothermere Allenby Chelmsford Long Ullswater Younger of Leckie Bearsted Craigavon Bridgeman Hailsham Brentford Buckmaster Bledisloe Hanworth Trenchard Samuel Runciman of Doxford Davidson Weir Caldecote Camrose Stansgate Margesson Daventry Addison Kemsley Marchwood Montgomery of Alamein Waverley Thurso Brookeborough Norwich Leathers Soulbury Chandos De L'Isle Monckton of Brenchley Tenby Mackintosh of Halifax Dunrossil Stuart of Findhorn Rochdale Slim Head Boyd of Merton Mills Blakenham Eccles Dilhorne
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• Viscountcies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Noble titles created in 1938