Ronald Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks

Lieutenant-General Ronald Morce Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, TD (13 November 1890 - 19 August 1960) was a British Army General during the Second World War.

Military career

Weeks was commissioned into the South Lanarkshire Regiment of the Territorial Army in 1913.^[1] He served in the Rifle Brigade during the First World War and then retired from military service in 1919.^[1]

He was re-employed during the Second World War initially as Chief of Staff for the Territorial Division and then as a Brigadier on the General Staff of Home Forces in 1940.^[1] He was appointed Director General of Army Equipment in 1941 and Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1942.^[1] He then became Deputy Military Governor and Chief of Staff of the British Zone for the Allied Control Council in Germany in 1945; in that capacity he was involved in negotiations to avoid the Berlin Blockade.^[2] He retired from the Army later that year.^[1]

Later life

After the war Weeks became Chairman of Vickers.^[3] In 1956 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Weeks, of Ryton in the County Palatine of Durham.^[4]

Family

Lord Weeks had two daughters. He died in August 1960, aged 69, when the barony became extinct.

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