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View Tree for Sir/1st Lord Beaverbrook William Maxwell AitkenSir/1st Lord Beaverbrook William Maxwell Aitken (b. 25 May 1879, d. 09 Jun 1964)

William Maxwell Aitken (son of William Cuthbert Aitken and Jane Noble) was born 25 May 1879 in Maple, Ontario, Canada, and died 09 Jun 1964. He married (1) Gladys Henderson Drury on 29 Jan 1906 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada., daughter of Charles William Drury and Mary Louisa Henderson. He married (2) Marcia Anastasia Christoforides on 07 Jun 1963 in Epsom Register Office, Epsom, Surrey, England.

 Includes NotesNotes for William Maxwell Aitken:
Sir William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Lord Beaverbrook1 (M)
b. 25 May 1879, d. 9 June 1964, #8597
Pedigree

Father Reverend William Cuthbert Aitken1 b. 28 February 1834, d. 13 December 1913
Mother Jane Noble1 b. before 1852, d. 6 August 1927

Last Edited 17 Jun 2004

Sir William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Lord Beaverbrook was born on 25 May 1879 in Maple, Ontario, Canada.1 He was baptised at Scottish Church, Maple, Ontario, Canada.1 He was the son of Reverend William Cuthbert Aitken and Jane Noble.1 He married, firstly, Gladys Henderson Drury, daughter of Maj.-Gen. Charles William Drury and Mary Louise Henderson, on 29 January 1906 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.1 He married, secondly, Marcia Anastasia Christoforides, daughter of John Christoforides, on 7 June 1963 in Epsom Register Office, Epsom, Surrey, England.2 He died on 9 June 1964 at age 85.2
Sir William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Lord Beaverbrook also went by the nick-name of Max.3 He was educated at Public Board School, Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada.1 He was proprietor of the Canadian Century between 1910 and 1911.3 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Unionist) for Ashton-under-Lyne.1 He was proprietor of the Globe between 1911 and 1914.3 He was invested as a Knight on 20 June 1911.1 He fought in the First World War in 1915, as eyewitness with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.1 He was Lieutenant-Colonel and commander of the Canadian War Records between 1916 and 1918.1 He wrote the book Canada in Flanders, published between 1916 and 1919, in three volumes.1 He was proprietor of the Daily Express between 1916 and 1964.1 He was created 1st Baronet Aitken [U.K.] on 3 July 1916.1 He was created 1st Lord Beaverbrook, of Beaverbrook, in the province of New Brunswick, Canada [U.K.] on 2 January 1917.1 He held the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1918 and 1919.1 He held the office of Minister of Information between 1918 and 1919.1 He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) on 4 March 1918.1 He graduated from University of New Brunswick in 1921 with the degree of honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.).1 Between 1923 and 1964 proprietor of the Evening Standard.1,3 He wrote the book Success, Politicians and the Press, published 1925.1 He was Chairman of the Colonial Bank.1 He wrote the book Politicians and the War, published between 1928 and 1932, in two volumes.3 He was proprietor of the Scottish Daily Express between 1928 and 1964.3 He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the New Brunswick Regiment.1 He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the 10 Battalion, Surrey Volunteer Regiment.1 He wrote the book My Case for Empire Free Trade, published 1930.1 He wrote the book The Resources of the British Empire, published 1934.1 He held the office of Minister of Aircraft Production between 1940 and 1941.3 He held the office of Member of the War Cabinet between 1940 and 1942.3 He held the office of Minister of State in 1941.3 He held the office of Minister of Supply between 1941 and 1942.3 He was a Trustee of the British Museum in 1943.3 He held the office of Lord Privy Seal between 1943 and 1945.3 He was a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum in 1944.3 He graduated from Toronto Univerity in 1947 with the degree of honorary Doctor of Law (LL.D.).3 He held the office of Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick between 1947 and 1953.3 He graduated from Mt. Alison Univerity in 1948 with the degree of honorary Doctor of Literature (Lit.D.).3 He graduated from Bishops University, Quebec in 1950 with the degree of honorary Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.).3 He graduated from South Thomas Univerity in 1953 with the degree of honorary Doctor of Law (LL.D.).3 He held the office of Honorary Life Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick in 1954.3 He gained the rank of Honorary Colonel in the service of the New Brunswick Regiment.3 He wrote the book Men and Power 1917-1918, published 1956.3 He wrote the book Three Keys to Success, published 1956.3 He wrote the book Don't Trust to Luck, published 1956.3 He wrote the book Friends: Sixty Years of Intimate Personal Relations with Richard Bedford Bennett, published 1959.3 He wrote the book Courage, published 1961.3 He wrote the book My Early Life, published 1964.3 He has an extensive biographical entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.4


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RefNo BBK
Title

The Beaverbrook Papers
Date

1869-1972
Level

Fonds
Extent&Form

13 series containing 4,196 files
AdminBiogHist

William Maxwell Aitken was born on 25 May 1879 at Vaughan, Maple, Ontario, the third son and sixth child in a family of ten children (an elder sister died of diphtheria aged six) of a Presbyterian minister, the Rev William Cuthbert Aitken, who had emigrated to Canada from Torpichen, West Lothian. His mother was Jane Noble, daughter of an Ulsterman who had become a prosperous farmer and storekeeper in Vaughan. A year after 'Max' was born his father moved to a comfortable living in Newcastle, New Brunswick where Max spent a happy and adventurous childhood and attended a local public school, Harkins Academy until the age of sixteen. After failing an entrance exam to Dalhousie University, he was persuaded to enter a law firm in Chatham by his friend R B Bennett but soon left and after following Bennett to Calgary began selling insurance, switching successfully to selling bonds just at the right moment during the Laurier boom years. He found a patron in John F. Stairs, financier and Conservative, who helped set him up in a finance company in Halifax.

After marrying Gladys, the beautiful daughter of Colonel (later General) Charles William Drury of Halifax, he moved to Montreal where he embarked on progressively larger financial deals until he became a millionaire. He was involved in large and controversial amalgamations including the formation in 1909 of the Canada Cement Company which caused ructions for many years to come. The next year the Aitkens came to England where Max, aided by fellow Canadian Bonar Law, stood as a Conservative in the Liberal-held seat of Ashton-under-Lyne which he won by 196 votes after a whirlwind campaign. This was followed by a knighthood in the New Year's Honours lists which was not universally well received. Whilst remaining close to Bonar Law he rapidly increased his financial and political links and set up his main home, Cherkley Court, in Surrey where he entertained leading politicians including Lloyd George and Churchill.

When war broke out he represented the Canadian government as 'Canadian Eyewitness' and was given the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Militia. In 1916 he became the Canadian Representative at the Front and was awarded a baronetcy despite objections from King George V. He also chaired the War Office Cinematograph Committee for the British Government and in the following year he became the Canadian War Records Officer. He also agreed to give up his seat in the Commons to Sir Albert Stanley (later Lord Ashfield), whom Lloyd George wanted to appoint President of the Board of Trade, and so he was made Baron Beaverbrook (again the King objected to no avail). But he had to wait another year before he was given a post in Lloyd George's Cabinet. In February 1918 he was appointed Minister of Information and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

After the war, whilst still dabbling in politics behind the scenes, Beaverbrook concentrated on his business interests, particularly newspapers. For several years he had financial links with the Daily Express which he finally controlled by the end of 1916 and for the next decade he set about creating the empire which was to become Beaverbrook Newspapers, progressively adding the "Sunday Express" (1918), the "Evening Standard" (1923) and the "Scottish Daily Express" (1928) and turning huge losses into healthy profits. Eventually by 1936 the Daily Express achieved the largest circulation in the world with two and a quarter million sales and over four million by 1954. In using his newspapers as propaganda tools in his efforts to gain power and influence, Beaverbrook embarked on a number of campaigns including his Empire Crusade of imperial preference pitted unsuccessfully against Stanley Baldwin, the 'No More War' campaign of appeasement and, as a final fling, the anti-Common Market campaign of 1962.

When Churchill became Prime Minister during the Second World War Beaverbrook was invited into the War Cabinet with the successive posts of Minister for Aircraft Production, 1940-1941, Minister of State, 1941 and Minister of Supply, 1941-1942. Beaverbrook then resigned and pursued the pro-Russian campaign of 'Second Front Now' but re-entered the government in September 1943 (but not the Cabinet) as Lord Privy Seal.

After the war and the Conservative Party's election defeat, Beaverbrook was returned to the political wilderness again and concentrated on his newspapers and writing and commissioning books. He also set up trust funds (to avoid death duties) and made generous charitable endowments in New Brunswick. In 1963 he married for the second time (Gladys having died in 1927) Marcia Anastasia, known as 'Christofor', the widow of his old friend Sir James Dunn and daughter of John Christoforides. He died of cancer on 9 June 1964.

Beaverbrook had one daughter and two sons, the youngest of whom had died in a yachting accident in 1947. Having refused the barony, the eldest became Sir Max Aitken and succeeded his father as Chairman of Beaverbrook Newspapers.
CreatorName

Aitken; Sir; William Maxwell (1879-1964); Lord Beaverbrook; 1st Baron
ArchivalHistory

Acting on Beaverbrook's instructions, on the day of his death his son, Sir Max Aitken, and private financial secretary, George Millar, burnt a box of secret papers. In addition to this Sir Max and his sister Janet Kidd were given six months in which to take or destroy anything they wished before handing their father's papers over to the Beaverbrook Foundation for permanent preservation. It is not known whether they did so. Certainly much family correspondence and private papers remained. The papers were removed to a warehouse in Hays Wharf and then brought to the Beaverbrook Library in St Bride Street when it opened in 1967. Financial files kept by George Millar remained in his care and it can only be assumed that they were destroyed on his death.

In the library the Beaverbrook Papers were in the care of Rosemary Brooks, a former secretary, who appears to have spent much of the time transcribing extracts and rearranging the papers. In Beaverbrook's lifetime documents and files had been rearranged several times and some had been destroyed by him. Reorganisation continued until Rosemary Brooks's death in 1971. Just before the library closed in 1975, Sir Max Aitken paid a visit and took away a number of family correspondence files, mainly between Beaverbrook, himself and Janet and sixty one photograph albums. About eighty boxes of papers relating to newsprint, banks, trust funds and various petty litigations were destroyed on the orders of A J P Taylor, the Director of the Beaverbrook Library.
Acquisition

The papers were transferred from the Beaverbrook Library to the House of Lords Record Office on permanent deposit on 7 April 1975.
FormerArchivalRef

Historical Collection 184
ScopeContent

The Beaverbrook Papers contain correspondence and a variety of papers, photographs and other images, maps and a few artefacts covering every aspect of the life and work of Lord Beaverbrook, politician and newspaper proprietor, from 1869 to 1972. They include general social and political correspondence and papers in England and in Canada covering Beaverbrook's early years in Canada including his financial dealings (BBK/A), his constituency correspondence as an MP, much detailed correspondence and papers on the Empire Crusade (BBK/B) and also special correspondence with prominent people including politicians, some artists and writers (BBK/C).

There are both private and official papers, including Cabinet Papers, and correspondence covering Beaverbrook's work for both the Canadian and British governments during the First World War ending in the nine month period he was Minister of Information. A large amount of material (BBK/D) is concerned with his activities during the Second World War covering his various ministries both in and out of Cabinet. Business papers include correspondence with newspaper editors, managers and other staff, correspondence and papers concerning financial arrangements, newsprint, cinema and film industry, various companies including Canada Cement and other Canadian Companies after 1910 and a number of trusts including the Beaverbrook Foundations.

Beaverbrook's working papers for most of his books have been kept and include numerous extracts and copies of original and secondary sources, some original documents, drafts and galley proofs (BBK/G). In addition there are some office memoranda and secretarial files. Beaverbrook's private business and financial papers relate to all the properties he owned - houses, farms, yachts, caravan and racing stables (BBK/J) and there are personal correspondence with family and friends, school records, engagement diaries, visitors' and wine cellar books, petty cash books, medical records, film and tapes of various commemorative occasions (BBK/K). Press cutting books contain newspaper articles about Beaverbrook and those written by him (BBK/L) and there are some photographs and a few prints selected from various sources (BBK/P).
Arrangement

The Beaverbrook Papers are arranged in 13 series as follows:

BBK/A Canadian Correspondence and Papers

BBK/B English General Correspondence

BBK/C Special Persons Correspondence

BBK/D World War Two

BBK/E World War One

BBK/F Campaigns, Propaganda and Speeches

BBK/G Material for Publications

BBK/H Newspaper and Business Correspondence

BBK/I Office and Secretarial Files

BBK/J Private and Personal Business Papers

BBK/K Personal Papers and Family Correspondence

BBK/L Press Cuttings

BBK/P Photographs and Other Images
AccessConditions

Unrestricted
ReproConditions

Permission to reproduce material from the Beaverbrook papers can be provided by the House of Lords Record Office on behalf of the Beaverbrook Foundation Trust. Researchers wishing to be granted permission should write to The Clerk of the Records.
AccessStatus

Open
Language

English unless otherwise stated
RelatedMaterial

See also the Beaverbrook Library Papers at BBL
Publications

Katharine Bligh, "Catalogue of the Beaverbrook Papers in the House of Lords Record Office. Volume I: Canadian and Business Papers" (TSO, 1997); Chisholm & Davie, "Beaverbrook: A Life" (Hutchinson, 1992); Gregory P Marchildon, "Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance" (University of Toronto Press, 1996); A J P Taylor, "Beaverbrook" (Hamish Hamilton, 1972)
Archivist

Listed by Katharine V Bligh at various times from 1975-1984 and 1991-2001and edited for CALM in 2001.
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AdminBiogHist William Maxwell Aitken was born on 25 May 1879 at Vaughan, Maple, Ontario, the third son and sixth child in a family of ten children (an elder sister died of diphtheria aged six) of a Presbyterian minister, the Rev William Cuthbert Aitken, who had emigrated to Canada from Torpichen, West Lothian. His mother was Jane Noble, daughter of an Ulsterman who had become a prosperous farmer and storekeeper in Vaughan. A year after 'Max' was born his father moved to a comfortable living in Newcastle, New Brunswick where Max spent a happy and adventurous childhood and attended a local public school, Harkins Academy until the age of sixteen. After failing an entrance exam to Dalhousie University, he was persuaded to enter a law firm in Chatham by his friend R B Bennett but soon left and after following Bennett to Calgary began selling insurance, switching successfully to selling bonds just at the right moment during the Laurier boom years. He found a patron in John F. Stairs, financier and Conservative, who helped set him up in a finance company in Halifax.

After marrying Gladys, the beautiful daughter of Colonel (later General) Charles William Drury of Halifax, he moved to Montreal where he embarked on progressively larger financial deals until he became a millionaire. He was involved in large and controversial amalgamations including the formation in 1909 of the Canada Cement Company which caused ructions for many years to come. The next year the Aitkens came to England where Max, aided by fellow Canadian Bonar Law, stood as a Conservative in the Liberal-held seat of Ashton-under-Lyne which he won by 196 votes after a whirlwind campaign. This was followed by a knighthood in the New Year's Honours lists which was not universally well received. Whilst remaining close to Bonar Law he rapidly increased his financial and political links and set up his main home, Cherkley Court, in Surrey where he entertained leading politicians including Lloyd George and Churchill.

When war broke out he represented the Canadian government as 'Canadian Eyewitness' and was given the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Militia. In 1916 he became the Canadian Representative at the Front and was awarded a baronetcy despite objections from King George V. He also chaired the War Office Cinematograph Committee for the British Government and in the following year he became the Canadian War Records Officer. He also agreed to give up his seat in the Commons to Sir Albert Stanley (later Lord Ashfield), whom Lloyd George wanted to appoint President of the Board of Trade, and so he was made Baron Beaverbrook (again the King objected to no avail). But he had to wait another year before he was given a post in Lloyd George's Cabinet. In February 1918 he was appointed Minister of Information and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

After the war, whilst still dabbling in politics behind the scenes, Beaverbrook concentrated on his business interests, particularly newspapers. For several years he had financial links with the Daily Express which he finally controlled by the end of 1916 and for the next decade he set about creating the empire which was to become Beaverbrook Newspapers, progressively adding the "Sunday Express" (1918), the "Evening Standard" (1923) and the "Scottish Daily Express" (1928) and turning huge losses into healthy profits. Eventually by 1936 the Daily Express achieved the largest circulation in the world with two and a quarter million sales and over four million by 1954. In using his newspapers as propaganda tools in his efforts to gain power and influence, Beaverbrook embarked on a number of campaigns including his Empire Crusade of imperial preference pitted unsuccessfully against Stanley Baldwin, the 'No More War' campaign of appeasement and, as a final fling, the anti-Common Market campaign of 1962.

When Churchill became Prime Minister during the Second World War Beaverbrook was invited into the War Cabinet with the successive posts of Minister for Aircraft Production, 1940-1941, Minister of State, 1941 and Minister of Supply, 1941-1942. Beaverbrook then resigned and pursued the pro-Russian campaign of 'Second Front Now' but re-entered the government in September 1943 (but not the Cabinet) as Lord Privy Seal.

After the war and the Conservative Party's election defeat, Beaverbrook was returned to the political wilderness again and concentrated on his newspapers and writing and commissioning books. He also set up trust funds (to avoid death duties) and made generous charitable endowments in New Brunswick. In 1963 he married for the second time (Gladys having died in 1927) Marcia Anastasia, known as 'Christofor', the widow of his old friend Sir James Dunn and daughter of John Christoforides. He died of cancer on 9 June 1964.

Beaverbrook had one daughter and two sons, the youngest of whom had died in a yachting accident in 1947. Having refused the barony, the eldest became Sir Max Aitken and succeeded his father as Chairman of Beaverbrook Newspapers.
CreatorName Aitken; Sir; William Maxwell (1879-1964); Lord Beaverbrook; 1st Baron
ArchivalHistory Acting on Beaverbrook's instructions, on the day of his death his son, Sir Max Aitken, and private financial secretary, George Millar, burnt a box of secret papers. In addition to this Sir Max and his sister Janet Kidd were given six months in which to take or destroy anything they wished before handing their father's papers over to the Beaverbrook Foundation for permanent preservation. It is not known whether they did so. Certainly much family correspondence and private papers remained. The papers were removed to a warehouse in Hays Wharf and then brought to the Beaverbrook Library in St Bride Street when it opened in 1967. Financial files kept by George Millar remained in his care and it can only be assumed that they were destroyed on his death.

In the library the Beaverbrook Papers were in the care of Rosemary Brooks, a former secretary, who appears to have spent much of the time transcribing extracts and rearranging the papers. In Beaverbrook's lifetime documents and files had been rearranged several times and some had been destroyed by him. Reorganisation continued until Rosemary Brooks's death in 1971. Just before the library closed in 1975, Sir Max Aitken paid a visit and took away a number of family correspondence files, mainly between Beaverbrook, himself and Janet and sixty one photograph albums. About eighty boxes of papers relating to newsprint, banks, trust funds and various petty litigations were destroyed on the orders of A J P Taylor, the Director of the Beaverbrook Library.
Acquisition The papers were transferred from the Beaverbrook Library to the House of Lords Record Office on permanent deposit on 7 April 1975.
FormerArchivalRef Historical Collection 184
ScopeContent The Beaverbrook Papers contain correspondence and a variety of papers, photographs and other images, maps and a few artefacts covering every aspect of the life and work of Lord Beaverbrook, politician and newspaper proprietor, from 1869 to 1972. They include general social and political correspondence and papers in England and in Canada covering Beaverbrook's early years in Canada including his financial dealings (BBK/A), his constituency correspondence as an MP, much detailed correspondence and papers on the Empire Crusade (BBK/B) and also special correspondence with prominent people including politicians, some artists and writers (BBK/C).

There are both private and official papers, including Cabinet Papers, and correspondence covering Beaverbrook's work for both the Canadian and British governments during the First World War ending in the nine month period he was Minister of Information. A large amount of material (BBK/D) is concerned with his activities during the Second World War covering his various ministries both in and out of Cabinet. Business papers include correspondence with newspaper editors, managers and other staff, correspondence and papers concerning financial arrangements, newsprint, cinema and film industry, various companies including Canada Cement and other Canadian Companies after 1910 and a number of trusts including the Beaverbrook Foundations.

Beaverbrook's working papers for most of his books have been kept and include numerous extracts and copies of original and secondary sources, some original documents, drafts and galley proofs (BBK/G). In addition there are some office memoranda and secretarial files. Beaverbrook's private business and financial papers relate to all the properties he owned - houses, farms, yachts, caravan and racing stables (BBK/J) and there are personal correspondence with family and friends, school records, engagement diaries, visitors' and wine cellar books, petty cash books, medical records, film and tapes of various commemorative occasions (BBK/K). Press cutting books contain newspaper articles about Beaverbrook and those written by him (BBK/L) and there are some photographs and a few prints selected from various sources (BBK/P).
Arrangement The Beaverbrook Papers are arranged in 13 series as follows:

BBK/A Canadian Correspondence and Papers
BBK/B English General Correspondence
BBK/C Special Persons Correspondence
BBK/D World War Two
BBK/E World War One
BBK/F Campaigns, Propaganda and Speeches
BBK/G Material for Publications
BBK/H Newspaper and Business Correspondence
BBK/I Office and Secretarial Files
BBK/J Private and Personal Business Papers
BBK/K Personal Papers and Family Correspondence
BBK/L Press Cuttings
BBK/P Photographs and Other Images
AccessConditions Unrestricted
ReproConditions Permission to reproduce material from the Beaverbrook papers can be provided by the House of Lords Record Office on behalf of the Beaverbrook Foundation Trust. Researchers wishing to be granted permission should write to The Clerk of the Records.
AccessStatus Open
Language English unless otherwise stated
RelatedMaterial See also the Beaverbrook Library Papers at BBL
Publications Katharine Bligh, "Catalogue of the Beaverbrook Papers in the House of Lords Record Office. Volume I: Canadian and Business Papers" (TSO, 1997); Chisholm & Davie, "Beaverbrook: A Life" (Hutchinson, 1992); Gregory P Marchildon, "Profits and Politics: Beaverbrook and the Gilded Age of Canadian Finance" (University of Toronto Press, 1996); A J P Taylor, "Beaverbrook" (Hamish Hamilton, 1972)
Archivist Listed by Katharine V Bligh at various times from 1975-1984 and 1991-2001and edited for CALM in 2001.

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More About William Maxwell Aitken and Gladys Henderson Drury:
Marriage: 29 Jan 1906, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada..

More About William Maxwell Aitken and Marcia Anastasia Christoforides:
Marriage: 07 Jun 1963, Epsom Register Office, Epsom, Surrey, England.

Children of William Maxwell Aitken and Gladys Henderson Drury are:
  1. +Janet Gladys Aitken, b. 09 Jul 1908255, d. 1988255.
  2. +John William Maxwell Aitken, b. 15 Feb 1910, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, d. 30 Apr 1985.
  3. +Peter Rudyard Aitken, b. 22 Mar 1912255, d. 03 Aug 1947.
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