Margaret Aitken Margaret Aitken Margaret Aitken (July 3, 1908 – November 19, 1980) was a Canadian author, columnist, journalist, and politician. Aitken was born in Newcastle, New Brunswick. She attended Branksome Hall in Toronto. She was the daughter of J. Mauns Aitken and her uncle was Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Her brother, William Aitken and his son Jonathan Aitken (her nephew) were members of the British House of Commons. She started with the "Toronto Telegram" in 1938 and was a foreign correspondent. She was noted for covering the birth of Israel as a nation and she became a strong supporter of
Baron Herbert of Chirbury Baron Herbert of Chirbury The title of Baron Herbert of Chirbury was created five times, twice in the Peerage of England, twice in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The title of Baron Herbert of Castle Island was created once in the Peerage of Ireland on 31 December 1624 for the Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat and poet Edward Herbert, who was created "Baron Herbert of Cherbury", in the Peerage of England, on 7 May 1629. Both baronies became extinct on the death of the fourth baron in 1691. The second English creation of