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Occupation. Legislator, author, entrepreneur. William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook PC, ONB (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964), generally known as Lord Beaverbrook ("Max" to his close circle), was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of ...
- Legislator, author, entrepreneur
- Arthur Greenwood
Sir John William Maxwell Aitken, 2nd Baronet, DSO, DFC (15 February 1910 – 30 April 1985), briefly 2nd Baron Beaverbrook in 1964, was a Canadian-British fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War, a Conservative politician, and press baron.
- 1935–1952
- Royal Air Force
William Max Aitken, 1º barone di Beaverbrook (Toronto, 25 maggio 1879 – Surrey, 9 giugno 1964), è stato un editore e politico britannico. Concepì il giornalismo come evasione e provocazione, dando alla vita mondana il sapore di una favola popolare, alla politica quello di un attacco personale, alla cronaca quello di un dramma, all ...
- 1943 –, 1945
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
1 giorno fa · Sir Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (born May 25, 1879, Maple, Ont., Can.—died June 9, 1964, near Leatherhead, Surrey , Eng.) was a financier in Canada , politician and newspaper proprietor in Great Britain, one of three persons (the others were Winston Churchill and John Simon) to sit in the British cabinet during both World Wars.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Maxwell William Humphrey Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook (born 29 December 1951) is a British peer and politician. Family [ edit ] Maxwell Aitken is the grandson of The 1st Baron Beaverbrook and the only son of Sir Max Aitken , by his third marriage to Violet de Trafford.
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- 2004–2019
- Politician
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, financier, politician, author, publisher (b at Maple, Ont 25 May 1879; d at Cherkley, Mickleham, Eng 9 June 1964). The son of a Presbyterian minister, Beaverbrook later claimed that his religion lay at the root of his worldly success.
Lord Beaverbrook died on June 9, 1964 just two weeks after his eighty-fifth birthday. His ashes are in the plinth a bust of his likeness by Oscar Nemon which is located in Newcastle Town Square. Max Aitken Academy, established in 2016 and located in Newcastle, was named in Lord Beaverbrook’s honour.
