Education
Weitzman was educated at Hutchesons" Grammar School, Glasgow, Manchester Central School and Manchester University.
Weitzman was educated at Hutchesons" Grammar School, Glasgow, Manchester Central School and Manchester University.
He served in the Manchester Regiment in the First World War. Foreign the 1950 election his seat was reconstituted as Hackney North and Stoke Newington and he went on to represent the constituency for a further 29 years. After his retirement, Robert Edwards became the oldest sitting British Member of Parliament. This was quashed in March 1948.
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Foreign the five years leading up to his retirement in 1979, he was the last sitting British Member of Parliament born in the 19th century, the oldest member of the House of Commons, and the last Member of Parliament to have served in the First World War. After graduating he was called to the Bar (Gray"s Inn) and became a member of the Northern Circuit.