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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.
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
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]
Beaverbrook Estate is an English country house turned five-star resort. Here's what the bucolic property in Surrey is really like, according to a design editor. ... someone Lord Beaverbrook was ...
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. He was the son of Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook.
The first minister, Lord Beaverbrook, pushed for aircraft production to have priority for raw materials over virtually all other types of munitions production. This was needed in the summer and autumn of 1940 but it distorted the supply system of the war economy .