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
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