Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook to resign and stand for re-election in a by-election. Aitken made arrangements for this, but then Lloyd George decided to appoint Albert Stanley instead. Aitken was a friend of Stanley and agreed to continue with the resignation, so that Stanley could take Aitken's seat in Parliament and be eligible for ministerial office. In return, Aitken received a peerage on 23 January 1917 as the "1st Baron Beaverbrook", the name "Beaverbrook" being adopted from a small community near his boyhood home. He had initially considered "Lord Miramichi", but rejected it on the advice of Louise Manny as too difficult to pronounce.
Max Beloff, Baron Beloff the lectures later published as "Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process". He became governor of the University of Haifa, and was knighted in 1980 and elevated to a life peerage with the title Baron Beloff, "of Wolvercote in the County of Oxfordshire" on 26 May 1981. After his death the University of Buckingham established 'The Max Beloff Centre for the Study of Liberty' in January 2005. Works edited by Beloff include: Max Beloff, Baron Beloff Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (2 July 1913 – 22 March 1999) was a British historian and Conservative peer. From 1974 to 1979 he was principal