Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook and competed in the FIA World GT Championship in 1999, and in the American Le Mans series in 2000. He won the Harmsworth Trophy (offshore powerboating) in 2004. He was a member of the Council of the Homeopathic Trust 1987-1992; and remains a Vice President of Ambition UK. 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
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook the "Evening Standard" failed but he did gain control of another London evening paper, "The Globe". In November 1916 a share deal worth £17,500, with Lawson Johnson, landed Aitken a controlling interest in the "Daily Express", but again he kept the deal secret. During the First World War the Canadian government placed Aitken in charge of creating the Canadian War Records Office in London, and he made certain that news of Canada's contribution to the war was printed in Canadian and British newspapers. He was innovative in the employment of artists, photographers, and film makers to record life on the