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
Baron Glenavy Baron Glenavy Baron Glenavy, of Milltown in the County of Dublin, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on July 26, 1921 for the noted Irish lawyer and Unionist politician Sir James Campbell, 1st Baronet. He was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland from 1916 to 1918 and Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1918 to 1921. Campbell had already been created a Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1917. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. On his death the titles passed to his eldest son, the third Baron. Better