Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook Maxwell William Humphrey Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook, (born 29 December 1951) is a British peer and politician. Maxwell Aitken is the grandson of the 1st Baron Beaverbrook and the only son of Sir Max Aitken, by his third marriage to Violet de Trafford. He was educated at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the Royal College of Defence Studies. He married Susan Angela More O'Ferrall, granddaughter of Sir Henry Mather-Jackson, 6th Bt. on 19 July 1974. They have four children: Lord Beaverbrook was a Lord in Waiting (1986–1988) and the Treasurer of the Conservative Party
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook the "Evening Standard" failed but he did gain control of another London evening paper, "The Globe". In November 1916 a share deal worth £17,500, with Lawson Johnson, landed Aitken a controlling interest in the "Daily Express", but again he kept the deal secret. During the First World War the Canadian government placed Aitken in charge of creating the Canadian War Records Office in London, and he made certain that news of Canada's contribution to the war was printed in Canadian and British newspapers. He was innovative in the employment of artists, photographers, and film makers to record life on the