2021

Galen Weston

Businessman Willard Gordon Galen Weston was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, his father being a Canadian businessman. Having studied business Weston went to Dublin and set up his own grocery store which expanded into a chain of supermarkets. This was just the beginning of his success in business. In Dublin he met his wife Hilary Mary Frayne and they had two children: Alannah Elizabeth Weston (b.January 1972) and Willard Galen Garfield Weston (b.19 December 1972)

Our picture source gives details of his life and obituaries in both the Independant.ie and The Irish Times confirm that he died, aged 80 years, on 12 April 2021 in Toronto, Canada.

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Galen Weston

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Selfridges centenary

Selfridge & Co. Limited Unveiled in 2009 by Galen, Hilary and Alannah Wes...

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Old Spitalfields Market

1638 King Charles I gave a licence for flesh, fowl and roots to be sold on Spittle Fields. The market lapsed during the Commonwealth but it was re-founded in 1682 by King Charles II. The existing ...

Building, Commerce

3 memorials

Gamages

A department store in Holborn which traded 1878 - 1972. Founded by Albert Walter Gamage, who soon bought out his partner, Frank Spain. Began in a rented watch repair shop and grow to take up most ...

Group, Commerce

1 memorial

Fakeblueplaques / Society for the Promotion of Historic Buildings

Londonist informs that the registered address of the website, where you can order a plaque, is 118 Hillfield Avenue N8, the site of plaque no 4. We have 3 of these non-plaques still to publish, no ...

Group, Commerce

3 memorials

Thomas Davies

The bookseller and author who, in 1763, introduced Dr Samuel Johnson to James Boswell at his house in Russell Street. He took to bookselling after failing as an actor.

Person, Commerce, Scotland

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The Bell, Carter Lane

From this inn, on 25 October 1598, Richard Quiney wrote a letter to William Shakespeare. This letter, the only one addressed to Shakespeare that has survived, is held by the museum at Strafford. Th...

Building, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial