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 to his half-brother, the first baron's son by his second marriage to Florence Emily Black. The title became extinct on the death of the latter's son, the fourth Baron, on 15 June 1992. 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