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About Michael Scott Weir
- Sir Michael Scott Weir, (28 January 1925 – 22 June 2006) was a British diplomat.
- He was born in Dunfermline, Fife, where his father was a primary school teacher. Weir went on a state scholarship to study oriental languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1942.
- A year later he joined the Royal Air Force, which sent him to London University to learn Persian.
- He was then posted as an intelligence officer, including to Burma and Iraq.
- After demobilisation in 1947, he went to Balliol College, Oxford.
- He joined the Foreign Service in 1950, and quickly became one of its leading Arabists.
- His early postings included Bahrain, Doha and Sharjah.
- Weir's career culminated with his appointment as the United Kingdom's ambassador to Egypt (1979–1985).
- In 1981, he was sitting behind Egyptian President Anwar Sadat when the president was assassinated at a military parade.He was appointed CMG in 1974 and KCMG in 1980.
- Weir retired from the Foreign Service in 1985.
- He served as President of the Egypt Exploration Society (1988–2006) and Director of the 21st Century Trust (1990–2000).
- He was the founding Chairman of the British Egyptian Society in 1990 and continued as Chairman until 2006.
- The society has been sponsoring the Sir Michael Weir Annual Lecture in his honour.Weir met his first wife, Alison Walker, at Oxford.
- They were married from 1953 until 1974 and had four children, including writer and comedian Arabella Weir.
- In 1976, Weir married Hilary Reid, with whom he had two children.
- He died in London on 22 June 2006.
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