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Max Aitken

Born: 25 May 1879, Maple, Ontario, Canada

Died: 9 June 1964

1st Baron Beaverbrook - 2 January 1917

1st Baronet - 3 July 1916

Knighted - 20 June 1911

Member of Privy Council - 4 March 1918

husband of Marcia Anastasia Christoforides

husband of Gladys Henderson Drury

son of William Cuthbert Aitken

Public Board School, Newcastle, New Brunswick

Minister of Information	1918	1919
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	10 February 1918	4 November 1918
Minister of Aircraft Production	1940	1941
Minister of Supply	1941	1942
Lord Privy Seal	1943	1945

3 December 1910		Ashton-under-Lyne	Conservative Party	4,044	51.24
16 December 1916 Resignation of William Aitken prior to his elevation to the Peerage as Baron Beaverbrook.