John began his apprenticeship as an engineer under David Napier at Camlachie.
Appointed by the Conservative Secretary of State for Transport, John MacGregor MP, Swift had little hope of being reappointed for a second five-year term by the new Labour party Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott MP.
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Dr Wiener was appointed the founding Dean of the University of Kent at Brussels, and was later succeeded by John Macgregor, former British Ambasssador to Austria.
Having been one of the founding directors, he succeeded John MacGregor as Chairman of the Eastern Archipelago Company in 1851.