Career
During the Second World War he worked as a cartographer for the Allies and was briefly employed as "General Eisenhower"s personal map-maker". In 1983 he retired to the Isle of Wight, where he painted large watercolour landscapes of the island and continued to pursue his interest in photography. He began work in the cabinet-making department of Heal"s, a furniture shop on Tottenham Court Road, but moved after two years to become a manuscript writer and calligrapher in another department.
Second World War
When the war began he joined the Ordnance Survey and was automatically enlisted in the Royal Engineers.
In 1942, he became a cartographer for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) and worked on the Rhine Barrage project He was seconded in 1944 to the American army as a "cartographer for the operations room at Headquarters in France".
In September 1944 he moved to Versailles and worked for the Operational Analysis Team of G.5 SHAFF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Forces in France). lieutenant was during this part of his war-service that he was employed as General Eisenhower"s map-maker.
Post-war
When the war ended, Weaver returned to United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration as a photo-reporter, covering "repatriation from concentration camps, welfare tracing bureaux" and contributing public-relations stories to publications like Life, Time and Ebony.
He was invalided out with nerve damage to his hands. After successful treatment, he began work with the designer Beverley Pick on industrial design, model-making and mural painting, creating exhibitions for companies like Ideal Home. In 1951 he and Pick worked on the "Iron and Steel Pavilion" at the Festival of Britain and created a giant three-dimensional mural "illustrating all the known methods of making steel".
Advertising, Wildlife Illustration and Publishing
In 1952 Weaver joined the advertising firm Artist Partners Limited as a still life artist.
He created art for companies like Wilkinson Sword (the iconic crossed swords), Guinness, Danish Bacon, Heinz, Cadbury"s Dairy Milk (a "glass-and-a-half of milk in every bar"), Rowntree"s, Polo, and Fox"s Mints. He created many memorable covers for books by authors like Alistair MacLean and Desmond Bagley, including the hanged Dutch doll for MacLean"s Puppet on a Chain and a surreal juxtaposition of an aircraft and a Venus flytrap for Bagley"s The Freedom Trap.
He began to specialize in wildlife illustration and particularly fish, "producing all 300 illustrations" for The Fresh and Saltwater Fishes of the World (1976). He also illustrated wildlife stamps issued by the Falkland Islands and Trinidad and Tobago and produced a "British Fish" series for the Royal Mail.
