Garry Weston

Garry (Garfield) Howard Weston, CBE, (April 28, 1927 - February 15, 2002) was a Canadian-born businessman in the United Kingdom. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was the son of Reta (nee Howard) and W. Garfield Weston, owner of the George Weston Limited conglomerate headquartered in Toronto: fourth of their nine children. Garry moved to England with his family at the age of 4 but always kept his Canadian citizenship.

Garry became managing director of Ryvita, and at the age of 22 he invented the Wagon Wheels biscuit which carried the family name. He left Ryvita in 1952 and co-founded the Weston Biscuit Company in Australia. He returned to the UK to manage Associated British Foods (ABF) which his father had established in 1935 and he had served on its Board of Directors from 1949, taking over as company chairman in 1967. He remained on the board until 2000.

Weston served as head of the W. Garfield Weston Foundation and was a benefactor of numerous philanthropic projects. For instance, in 1999, he directed a 20 million pound donation to the British Museum from a foundation, set up in 1958 with money from his parents, siblings and himself.

He married Mary, daughter of Major-General Sir Howard Kippenberger and they had six children together: Guy, Jana, Kate, George, Sophie and Garth.

Garry Weston suffered a stroke in 1999 and died in 2002. His son George G. Weston is chief executive of ABF and Guy Weston is chairman of Wittington Investments, Ltd., ABF's major shareholder. His other children are Jana Khayat, Kate Hobhouse, Sophia Mason and Garth Weston