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  Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beaverbrook remained a widower for many years until 1963 when he married Marcia Anastasia Christoforides (1910-1994), the widow of his friend Sir James Dunn.
Aitken also established the Canadian War Memorials Fund that evolved into a collection of war art by the premier artists and sculptors in Britain and Canada.
After the war, Lord Beaverbrook served as chancellor of the University of New Brunswick and became the university's, the city of Fredericton's and the Province's greatest benefactor.
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 Aitken, William Maxwell, 1st Baron Beaverbrook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aitken was the son of a Presbyterian minister and grew up in Newcastle, New Brunswick.
Aitken began as an insurance salesman in the Maritimes and soon moved on to other ventures.
In 1910 Aitken took his business skills to England, where he also became involved in politics and was elected a Conservative member of parliament in 1910.
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 Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (May 25, 1879–June 9, 1964) was a Canadian–British business tycoon and politician.
He would become a "Fleet Street" Baron and one of the most powerful men in Britain whose newspapers could make or break almost anyone.
In the 1930s, while personally attempting to dissuade King Edward VIII from continuing his potentially ruinous affair with American divorcee, Wallis Simpson, Lord Beaverbrook masterminded the British newspaper conspiracy of silence over their romance.
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Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron, British And Irish History, Biographies
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron 1879–1964, British financier, statesman, and newspaper owner, b.
Beaverbrook obtained control of the Daily Express (1916) and the Evening Standard (1923) and began the Sunday Express (1918).
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 Lord Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook Biography
In 1911, he was knighted by King George V. During World War I, the Canadian government put him in charge of creating the Canadian War Records Office in London, England and Aitken then made certain that news of Canada's contribution to the War was printed in Canadian and British newspapers.
He would provide additions to the University, scholarship funds, the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Beaverbrook Skating Rink, the Lord Beaverbrook Hotel (profits donated to charity) and numerous other projects.
His statue stands in the park in the town square of Newcastle, not far from where he sold newspapers as a young boy.
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William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (May 25, 1879 - June 9, 1964) was a Canadian-British business tycoon and politician.
During World War II, he joined the British cabinet as minister of information and in 1940, Winston Churchill, the new British Prime Minister, would appoint him as minister of aircraft production and minister of supply.
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 William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook - InformationBlast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He was born in Maple, Ontario, Canada and at an early age his family moved to Newcastle, New Brunswick, the place he would always call home and where, at the age of thirteen, he published his first newspaper.
As a young man, he made his way to Halifax, Nova Scotia where John F. Stairs, part of the city's dominant business family, gave him employment at his newly formed Royal Securities Corporation.
He often worked closely with Bonar Law, another native of New Brunswick, who became the only Canadian to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Baron Beaverbrook is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
It is most commonly associated with the first Baron, Maxwell Aitken, who was a prominent media owner and politician from the 1910s to the 1960s.
When he died, his son immediately disclaimed the title, as he wished there to only be one Lord Beaverbrook in his lifetime.
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William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook - Pictures
During World War I, the Canadian government put him in charge of creating the Canadian War Records Office in London, England and Aitken then made certain that news of Canada's contribution to the War was printed in Canadian and British newspapers.
After the war, Lord Beaverbrook served as chancellor of the University of New Brunswick and became the city of Fredericton's and the Province's greatest benefactor.
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 Beaverbrook, Sir Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron, 1st Baronet --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Beaverbrook, Sir Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron, 1st Baronet --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879-1964), Statesman and newspaper proprietor.
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 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- -- Feb. 05, 1934   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Peter Rudyard Aitken, 22, younger son of Rt.
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Britain's No. 1 newspaper tycoon; and Janet MacNeill, 20, daughter of Professor Murray MacNeill of Dalhousie University (Halifax); in London.
James Augustine Farrell Jr., 33, Manhattan shipping man, son of the longtime (1911-32) president of U. Steel Corp.; and Emilie Hill, 21, daughter of Vice President William Hogarth Hill of American Radiator Co.; in Noroton, Conn. Married.
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