The Queen's College Record 2023

emained a Director of Accordis until his retirement in 2001. Subsequently, he acted
as a consultant to Accordis which was eventually sold to a private equity firm CVC
Capital Partners who eventually sold Tencel to Lenzing, where the success of the
fibre continues.
Sadly, Jetta died in the year of David’s retirement. He did, however, enjoy a long
and happy retirement pursuing his interests in music, the Arts, and travel. In 2019
he married Helen McAlinden a Dublin-based Fashion Designer. His friends were
delighted by his new happiness.
Obituaries
David was a good man, quiet and unostentatious in his organisational capacities
but an approachable figure, humane, and collaborative, who remembered his links
with friends and contemporaries, a man who threw great parties. In many ways he
was an archetype of the Queensman of that era, competitive but never arrogant,
embodying in his person the qualities of the North of England Grammar schools to
which many Queensmen of that era had gone. He will be very much missed.
David T Weir (PPE, 1957)
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