Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook as his Minister of Aircraft Production from May 1940. Churchill and others later praised his Ministerial contributions. He resigned due to ill-health in 1941 but later in the war was appointed Lord Privy Seal. Beaverbrook spent his later life running his newspapers, which by then included the "Evening Standard" and the "Sunday Express". He served as Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick and developed a reputation as a historian with his books on political and military history. Aitken was born in Maple, Ontario, Canada, in 1879, one of the ten children of William Cuthbert Aitken, a Scottish-born Presbyterian minister
Baron of Dunsany rare quadruple-barrelled surname of Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. , the title is held by the eighteenth Baron's great-grandson, Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany, who in 2011, succeeded his father, the painter Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, and first Roman Catholic holder of the title since the 12th Baron. The ancestral seat of this branch of the Plunkett family is Dunsany Castle in County Meath in Ireland. The title is listed in "Burke's Peerage and Baronetage" and "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" as Baron "of" Dunsany, but in "The Complete Peerage" as Baron Dunsany without the "of". In either case, the holder of