Donald Weir

Donald St Clair Weir (23 January 1900 – 1 April 1959) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and cricket administrator.

Weir was at Edinburgh in January 1900. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy.^[1] A club cricketer for Edinburgh Academical Cricket Club, Weir made his debut for Scotland in first-class cricket against Middlesex at Edinburgh in 1923. He made three further first-class appearances for Scotland, against Wales at Swansea in 1924, and twice against Ireland in 1925 and 1926.^[2] He scored 64 runs in his four matches at an average of 9.14, with a highest score of 28.^[3] With his right-arm medium pace bowling, he took 5 wickets with best figures of 2 for 63.^[4] He later served as president of the Scottish Cricket Union in 1951.^[5]

Outside of cricket, Weir was an accountant and later served as proprietor of his family's wholesale egg business.^[6][7] He was married in 1928 at the St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, to Aileen Davies, formerly the principal mezzo-soprano artiste with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.^[8] Weir became an alcoholic and was a heavy smoker; he died at Edinburgh in April 1959.^[9]