Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook Exchequer), rewarded Aitken with a peerage and, briefly, a Cabinet post as Minister of Information. Post-war, the now Lord Beaverbrook concentrated on his business interests. He built the "Daily Express" into the most successful mass-circulation newspaper in the world, with sales of 2.25 million copies a day across Britain. He used it to pursue personal campaigns, most notably for tariff reform and for the British Empire to become a free trade bloc. Beaverbrook supported the government of Stanley Baldwin and that of Neville Chamberlain throughout the 1930s and was persuaded by another long standing political friend, Winston Churchill, to serve
Baron Colwyn holder's son the Hon. Craig Peter Hamilton-Smith (b. 1968)<br> The heir apparent's heir is his son Joshua Dougal Callum Hamilton-Smith (b. 2006)<br> Baron Colwyn Baron Colwyn, of Colwyn Bay in the County of Denbigh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1917 for the businessman Sir Frederick Smith, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet in 1912. the titles are held by his great-grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1966. The third Lord Colwyn remained in the House of Lords as one of ninety indirectly elected hereditary peers