Baron Beaverbrook (b. 1977). The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son Maxwell Alfonso Aitken (b. 2014). Baron Beaverbrook Baron Beaverbrook, of Beaverbrook in the Province of New Brunswick in the Dominion of Canada and of Cherkley in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for the prominent media owner and politician Sir Max Aitken, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet, of Cherkley in the County of Surrey, on 3 July 1916. When Aitken died, his son disclaimed the title three days later, stating that "there shall
Edith Aitken unto which it should please God to call her. Aitken employed Dutch speaking staff and she took lessons in Dutch. The school expanded and in 1915 the school was given new buildings and in 1917 playing fields. By 1923 when Aitken retired the school was acknowledged as the best in South Africa. Two years after she retired and she finally got the Cambridge degree that she had earned in the 19th century. Aitken made her last visit to Pretoria in 1938. She died in Wrecclesham in 1940. Edith Aitken Edith Aitken (16 June 1861 – 2 November 1940) was a