Hilary Weston

Hilary Weston
Weston in 2013
26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
In office
January 24, 1997 – March 7, 2002
MonarchElizabeth II
Governors GeneralRoméo LeBlanc
Adrienne Clarkson
PremierMike Harris
Preceded byHal Jackman
Succeeded byJames Bartleman
Personal details
Born
Hilary Mary Frayne

(1942-01-12) January 12, 1942 (age 82)
Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Spouse
(m. 1966; died 2021)
Children
Occupation
  • Businesswoman
  • writer

Hilary Mary Weston CM CVO OOnt (née Frayne; born January 12, 1942) is an Irish–Canadian businesswoman and writer who served as the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1997 to 2002. During her five-year tenure, Weston focused on issues related to women, volunteerism and young people, drawing public attention to people working with the homeless, in hospices and as mentors to at-risk youth.[2]

Life and career

Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, she was educated at Loreto Abbey, Dalkey.[3] She worked as a model before marrying Galen Weston in 1966. They moved to Toronto in 1974, and she became a Canadian citizen. They have two married children, Alannah[1] and Galen Jr., and five grandchildren – two girls and a boy with Alannah and her husband Alex Cochrane (an interior architect),[4] and two boys with Galen and his wife Alexandra.[5]

Prior to her appointment as Lieutenant Governor, Weston spent over two decades working in business and the fashion industry. As deputy chair of Holt Renfrew, she promoted Canadian design and merchandise. During the same period, she also served as a director of Brown Thomas & Co. in Ireland, co-founded Torwest in the United States, and served as vice-chair and design director of the Windsor Club at the Windsor gated community in Vero Beach, Florida.[citation needed]

In 1979, Weston founded the Ireland Fund of Canada, a non-partisan, non-denominational organization that funds community projects in Ireland to promote peace. She continues to serve as an honorary patron of the organization.

An interest in early childhood education led Weston to serve as founding chair of the Mabin School in Toronto. She also co-founded and chaired the Canadian Environment Educational Foundation, and she established the Winter Garden Show at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. Weston has explored her longstanding interest in homes and gardens as co-author of two best-selling books, In a Canadian Garden (1989) and At Home in Canada (1995).

After her term as Lieutenant Governor, Weston spearheaded the most successful fundraising campaign in Canadian cultural history, which raised more than $250 million for the Royal Ontario Museum. She is patron of several organizations dealing with social issues, such as the Abbeyfield House Society, the Hospice Association of Ontario, the Landmine Survivors Network (later known as Survivor Corps), the Ontario March of Dimes, the Prince's Trust Canada and the Yonge Street Mission. Weston also devotes a significant proportion of her time, as well as her business and fashion expertise, to Selfridges, the London department store of which she is a director.

Honours

As Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Weston received the Order of Ontario in 1997,[6] and she served as chancellor of the order during her term in office. She was also invested as a Dame of Justice in the Venerable Order of St. John in 1997. Weston was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2003.[7] She received the Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 and the Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. In the 2015 Birthday Honours, she was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.

Ten post-secondary institutions have recognized Weston with honorary degrees, including the University of Western Ontario, University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, Massey College, Trinity College, Dublin and University College Dublin

In 2009, Weston received the President's Award at the YWCA Toronto Women of Distinction Awards, for modeling leadership in public and private life.[8]

Ribbon bars


Ribbon Description Notes
Order of Canada (CM) 2003
Royal Victorian Order (CVO) 2015
Order of St. John (DStJ) 1997
  • Dame of Justice
Order of Ontario (OOnt) 1997
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal 2002
  • Canadian version
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2012
  • Canadian version

Arms

Coat of arms of Hilary Weston
Notes
The arms of Hilary Weston consist of:[9]
Crest
Upon a helmet mantled Azure doubled Or within a wreath of these colours issuant from a coronet erablé Argent the rim bearing a frieze of trefoils Vert a demi lioness Gules the sinister paw resting on a wheat sheaf Or the dexter paw holding a closed book bound Or edged Gules.
Escutcheon
Or a fess Azure semé of Ermine spots Or between in chief two bees volant and in base a panpipe Azure.
Supporters
Two mares Or the dexter gorged with a wreath of roses Gules the sinister gorged with a collar of ash leaves Vert.
Compartment
A grassy mound Vert.
Motto
Suaviter in Modo Fortiter in Re

References

  1. ^ a b "Alannah Weston". Companies House. Archived from the original on December 25, 2021. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  2. ^ Hilary Weston, "No Ordinary Time: Hilary Weston – My Years as Ontario's Lieutenant Governor," Whitfield Editions; (2007) ISBN 0-9781805-1-8.
  3. ^ "The Weston Family". Irish Independent. Dublin. January 15, 2018.
  4. ^ Elfreda Pownall (November 1, 2016). "See inside one of south Kensington's grandest homes:19th century house with formal ballroom has been beautifully transformed for modern living". www.homesandproperty.co.uk. Archived from the original on August 10, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  5. ^ "Writers & Books | Writers' Trust of Canada". Archived from the original on January 3, 2018. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
  6. ^ "The Order of Ontario". Government of Ontario. Archived from the original on October 25, 2019. Retrieved January 20, 2023.
  7. ^ Office of the Governor General of Canada. Order of Canada citation. Queen's Printer for Canada. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  8. ^ "Women of Distinction Awards" (PDF). YWCA Toronto. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 15, 2020. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  9. ^ Canadian Heraldic Authority (Volume III), Ottawa, 1998
Government offices
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1997–2002
Succeeded by

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