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Lord Beaverbrook died in Leatherhead in 1964, aged 85. [113] He had recently attended a birthday banquet organized by fellow Canadian press baron, Lord Thomson of Fleet , where he was determined to be seen on his usual good form, despite suffering from cancer.
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 .
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.
Beaverbrook began enrolling members at the end of 1929, after concluding that Baldwin would not be won over to his aim. In 1930, he briefly joined Lord Rothermere's United Empire Party, and the two parties worked together thereafter. A party youth group for under-25s, the Young Crusaders, was launched on 16 April 1930 in London. [2]
All pages with titles containing Beaverbrook; Beaver Brook (disambiguation) Camp Beaverbrook, near Cobb Mountain, in Lake County, California, U.S. Lord Beaverbrook High School in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Sir John William Maxwell Aitken, 2nd Baronet, DSO, DFC (15 February 1910 – 30 April 1985 [1]), 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.
Marcia Anastasia Aitken, Baroness Beaverbrook (née Christoforides, previously Lady Dunn; 27 July 1909 – 28 October 1994) was a British philanthropist, an art collector, and racehorse owner. [ 1 ] Early life and first marriage
Beaverbrook passed the house on to his son Max some years before his death in 1964. After the death of Beaverbrook's second wife in 1994, the house became the property of the Beaverbrook Foundation, a charitable foundation set up by Lord Beaverbrook. Lord Beaverbrooks's daughter, Janet Gladys Aitken, served as a trustee of the foundation. [5]