Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet the birth of the Cowes Torquay Offshore Powerboat Race, with the aim of improving the breed of sea-going fast cruisers and safety at sea. The Cowes Torquay will celebrate in 2010 the 50th year since Aitken founded it. Aitken, with the sponsorship of his newspaper the Daily Express, helped to found the London International Boat Show in 1954 at the Empire Hall, Olympia. Aitken married three times: He succeeded his father as Baron Beaverbrook on the latter's death on 9 June 1964, but disclaimed the title three days later on 12 June, stating that "there shall only be one Lord
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