He came to the country, a young man in a hurry, setting up a grocery store that he turned into a supermarket chain. Any one of these would have marked a man as someone out of the ordinary. For Weston, they were all merely individual incidents in a long life of achievement. Willard Gordon Galen Weston was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire in , the youngest of nine children to Canadian parents then living in England.
Aged five, the family returned to live in Canada where Galen spent his formative years. Following university, in , Galen Weston moved from Canada to Dublin and, with his own money, opened his first grocery shop. A second followed and, by , there were six — the embryonic Powers Supermarkets chain. Four years later, he bought the bankrupt Todd Burns department store on Mary Street in Dublin and turned it into Penneys, opening four more shops and, within two years, 11 more, including one in Northern Ireland.
In , he married Dublin-born fashion model Hilary Frayne. Both were strikingly good looking and cut a dash on the social scene at the time, especially when it came to polo a sport at which Weston excelled and matters equestrian in general. Hilary Weston became involved in the business, particularly with Penneys and the Primark fashion brand, and as a director of Brown Thomas. She has had a notable career, both in business and politics, including serving as lieutenant governor of Ontario, Galen shut failing stores and focused on product development and marketing.
It worked. It is also the most profitable. It was there in that an anti-terrorist Garda unit foiled an attempt by five IRA gunmen to kidnap the Westons. Throughout his life, Galen Weston maintained close contacts with friends and business associates in Ireland.
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