Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook "Mr Beaverbrook says: 'We've gotta save our tin/And all the garden gates and empty cans are gonna make us win...'." Beaverbrook was one of eight notable Britons cited in Bjørge Lillelien's famous "Your boys took a hell of a beating" commentary at the end of an English football team defeat to Norway in 1981, mentioned alongside British Prime Ministers Churchill, Thatcher and Attlee. In the alternate history novel, "Dominion" by C. J. Sansom, Beaverbrook serves as Prime Minister for most of the novel, which sees Britain as a puppet state of a longer-lived Nazi Germany. Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
Baron Southborough Baron Southborough Baron Southborough, of Southborough in the County of Kent, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 November 1917 for civil servant Sir Francis Hopwood. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1907 and 1911. He was succeeded by James, his son from his first marriage to Alice Smith-Neill (1862–1889). The second baron was also a civil servant and worked for the Board of Trade and Ministry of Labour as well as for the War Trade Intelligence Department and War Trade Department. On his death the title passed