Judith Weir her appointment as the Master of the Queen's Music, succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (whose term of office expired in March 2014), would be announced; this was officially confirmed on 21 July. In May 2015, Weir won The Ivors Classical Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. Weir is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. In 2018 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Weir's musical language is fairly conservative, with a "knack of making simple musical ideas appear freshly mysterious." Her first stage work, "The Black Spider", was a one-act opera which
Colin Weir 2018. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for service in Afghanistan on 30 September 2011. Colin Weir Major General Colin Richard James Weir is a senior British Army officer. Weir was commissioned into the Royal Irish Rangers on 26 May 1991. He was appointed commanding officer of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment in March 2010 and was deployed in that role to Afghanistan. He went on to be Chief of Staff for 1st (United Kingdom) Division in December 2012, Commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade in July 2015 and Assistant Chief of Staff (Operations) at Permanent