I have been fortunate enough to enjoy a varied and fulfilling career in business while pursuing a number of personal adventures along the way. I am now retired but still constantly find new and exciting projects as I get easily bored.

Having moved to the UK at the age of eight from Ghana, where my father was Chief Superintendent of the Colonial Police Force in the country’s pre-independence era, I left school before the age of 16 with no qualifications.

I am married to Roma, who is my rock, and we have three beautiful daughters.

During my business career I have owned and developed a marina at Sandbanks, developed an award-winning riverside restaurant, renovated a Grade I listed castle in Scotland, had property in Berkeley Square and Convent Garden and successfully built up and sold a property and mobile homes business.

On my retirement in 2007, I still played a prominent role in the mobile home industry, becoming heavily involved in the Mobile Homes Act of 2013, and offered advice and consultation on the legislation to park home owners.

In the late 1980s I was proposed by the Marquis of Bute to add the designation Dunderave to my title so that I became Barry John Eden Weir of Dunderave.

Apart from business, my other great passion is motoring, and in 2000 I drove into the record books at the wheel of my wife’s 1954 Aston Martin DB2/4, becoming the first person to drive an historic sports car around the world in 80 days, crossing four continents and driving through 22 countries. A true world rally driver.

My relationship with the Aston Martin brand was further cemented when I commissioned a unique Aston Martin which became the Jet 2+2, the only one of its kind in the world which was unveiled to global acclaim at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. The Jet 2+2 was so special that Aston Martin wanted to put the car into production.