Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
✓ Source-basedstableAnglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer (1879-1964)
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, 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.
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Cherkley Court
Lord Beaverbrook
Lord Beaverbrook, c. August 1941
Lord Beaverbrook during the Second World War
Winston Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook on HMS PRINCE OF WALES during the Atlantic Conference with President Roosevelt, August 1941
Plaque on pew in St Bride's Church (the Journalists' Church) off Fleet Street, London (2023)
Gladys Drury, sometime before her marriageAwards 3
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William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, 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. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War, he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production.
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