Career
Weeks was commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment of the Territorial Army in 1913. He served in the Rifle Brigade during the First World War and then retired from military service in 1919. He was appointed Director General of Army Equipment in 1941 and Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1942.
He retired from the Army later that year.
After the war Weeks became Chairman of Vickers. In 1956 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Weeks, of Ryton in the County Palatine of Durham.
Lord Weeks had two daughters: The Honorary Pamela Rose Weeks (since 1931) and the Honorary
Venetia Daphne Weeks (since 1933).
Lord Weeks died in August 1960, aged 69, when the barony became extinct.
