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4 unusual facts about John Weir


John Weir

John Angus Weir (1930–2007), fourth president of Wilfrid Laurier University

John Jenner Weir (1822–1894), English amateur entomologist, ornithologist and British civil servant

Medical Service Ministries

Treasurer John Weir was particularly successful in gathering donations for the fund, attracting funds through private connections.

John Weir was a notable treasurer for the Missionary School of Medicine due to his contributions to the formation of the school’s endowment fund.


Fred Holroyd

Holroyd was one of a number of former members of British forces who either exposed or admitted to such activity, the most prominent being Colin Wallace and John Weir (see Dublin and Monaghan bombings).

Reavey and O'Dowd killings

RUC SPG officer John Weir, in his affidavit made to Irish Supreme Court Justice Henry Barron, named those involved in the Reavey shootings as Robert McConnell (a soldier of the British Army's Ulster Defence Regiment), Laurence McClure (an RUC SPG officer), James Mitchell and another man.


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Paul Rebillot

Rebillot had already published "The Hero’s Journey: Ritualizing the Mystery" in Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis (1989), a collective work edited by Stanislav and Christina Grof, to which he had contributed with Ronald Laing, Roberto Assagioli, John Weir Perry, Ram Dass, Lee Sannella, Jack Kornfield, Holger Kalweit, Anne Armstrong and Keith Thompson.

Robert John Kerr

John Weir stated in his affidavit, which was published in a judiciary inquiry commissioned by Irish Supreme Court Justice Henry Barron into the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, that he had first met Kerr in the company of Robin Jackson in 1974.