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 Bowes Baron Bowes Baron Bowes is a title that has been created three times, once in the Peerage of Ireland and twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of Ireland on 15 August 1758 when John Bowes, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was made Baron Bowes, of Clonlyon. The title became extinct on his death in 1767. The second creation came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 7 August 1815 when John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was made Baron Bowes, of Streatlam Castle in the County of Durham and