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 his early political efforts: Aitken continued to grow his business interests while in Parliament and also began to build a British newspaper empire. After the death of Charles Rolls in 1910, Aitken bought his shares in Rolls-Royce Limited, and over the next two years gradually increased his holding in the company. However, Claude Johnson, Rolls-Royce's Commercial managing director, resisted Aitken's attempt to gain control of the company, and in October 1913 he sold his holding to James Buchanan Duke, of the American Tobacco Company. In January 1911, Aitken, secretly, invested £25,000 in the failing "Daily Express". An attempt to buy