Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964) was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the "Daily Express", which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's minister of aircraft production. The young Max Aitken had
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