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[[Image:Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth - Project Gutenberg eText 15306.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth]]<br />
'''Baron Inverforth''', of Southgate in the County of Middlesex,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31168 |date=7 February 1919 |page=1956}}</ref> is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]. It was created in 1919 for the [[Scotland|Scottish]] shipping magnate [[Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth|Andrew Weir]]. He was head of the firm of Andrew Weir & Co, shipowners, and also served as [[Minister of Munitions]] from 1919 to 1921. {{As of|2014}} the title is held by his great-grandson, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in 1982.<br />
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==Baron Inverforth (1919)==<br />
*[[Andrew Weir, 1st Baron Inverforth]] (1865–1955)<br />
*[[Andrew Weir, 2nd Baron Inverforth|Andrew Alexander Morton Weir, 2nd Baron Inverforth]] (1897–1975)<br />
*[[Andrew Weir, 3rd Baron Inverforth|Andrew Charles Roy Weir, 3rd Baron Inverforth]] (1932–1982)<br />
*[[Andrew Weir, 4th Baron Inverforth|Andrew Peter Weir, 4th Baron Inverforth]] (b. 1966)<br />
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The heir apparent is the present holder's son, Hon. Benjamin Andrew Weir (b. 1997).<br />
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==Arms==<br />
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|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|150px]][[File:Inverforth Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]<br />
|escutcheon = Or on a fess Azure between in chief an escutcheon per bend sinister Azure and Gules charged with a bend Argent and in base a lymphad sail furled Sable pennons flying to the dexter Gules three mullets of the first.<br />
|crest = A dexter and sinister hand each couped at the wrist Proper supporting a lymphad as in the arms.<br />
|supporters = On either side a sailor of the Mercantile Marine Proper.<br />
|motto = Per Laborem Ad Honorem (Through Toil To Honour)<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1999}}</ref>}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
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*{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/504 | location=London |publisher=London: Dean & son, limited|page=504}}<br />
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}<br />
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}<br />
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