Galen Weston, leader of his family’s Anglo-Canadian business empire and owner of Selfridges – obituary He had a simple set of precepts: owning property rather than leasing, keeping debt low, a strong family work ethic and loyal key executives 14 April 2021 • 2:23pm Galen Weston: it was said that the British Westons came to regard sociable, polo-playing Galen as their benign ‘playboy uncle’ Credit: Nils Jorgensen/Shutterstock Galen Weston, who has died aged 80, was the head of the billionaire Anglo-Canadian dynasty whose fortune had its origins in mass-produced sliced bread. Though best known as the steward of the family’s Canadian and Irish interests, he was also the owner of Selfridges, a friend of the British Royal family – and the target, in 1983, of a botched IRA kidnap attempt.