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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. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the Royal College of Defence Studies.
28 de may. de 2008 · Guided by Andrew Bonar Law, Aitken won a seat for the Conservatives in the second general election of 1910. He championed tariffs and imperial unity and was knighted in 1911. During WWI he represented the Canadian government at the front and wrote Canada in Flanders .
19 de nov. de 2018 · By Geoffrey Hayes. PDF EPUB KINDLE Print. Aitken, William Maxwell. Businessman, politician, newspaper owner, historian, philanthropist. Born 25 May 1879 in Maple, Canada. Died 09 June 1964 in Leatherhead, Great Britain.
Conservative. 10 July 1985 - 11 November 1999. House membership. Lord Beaverbrook's full title is The Lord Beaverbrook. His name is Maxwell William Humphrey Aitken, and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 11 November 1999.
Baron Beaverbrook, of Beaverbrook in the Province of New Brunswick in the Dominion of Canada and of Cherkley in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for the prominent media owner and politician Sir Max Aitken, 1st Baronet.
Having refused the barony, the eldest became Sir Max Aitken and succeeded his father as Chairman of Beaverbrook Newspapers. Acquisition: The papers were transferred from the Beaverbrook Library to the House of Lords Record Office on permanent deposit on 7 April 1975.
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 the 20th century.
