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Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook.
Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer (1879-1964)
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About Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
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.
Everything about Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook →- Occupation
- politician, writer, historian, publisher
- Position held
- Minister of Production, Lord Privy Seal, Minister of Supply, Minister of Aircraft Production
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, Canada
- Born
- May 25, 1879
- Died
- June 9, 1964