Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook They had three children before her death on 1 December 1927. Their son Max Aitken Jr. became a fighter pilot with 601 Squadron, rising to Wing Commander with 16 victories in World War II. Beaverbrook remained a widower for many years until 1963 when he married Marcia Anastasia Christoforides (1910–1994), the widow of his friend Sir James Dunn. Beaverbrook was rarely a faithful husband, and even in old age was often accused of treating women with disrespect. In Britain he established the then-married Jean Norton as his mistress at Cherkley. Aitken left Norton for a Jewish ballet dancer named Lily
Baron Southborough Baron Southborough Baron Southborough, of Southborough in the County of Kent, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 November 1917 for civil servant Sir Francis Hopwood. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1907 and 1911. He was succeeded by James, his son from his first marriage to Alice Smith-Neill (1862–1889). The second baron was also a civil servant and worked for the Board of Trade and Ministry of Labour as well as for the War Trade Intelligence Department and War Trade Department. On his death the title passed