Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook to resign and stand for re-election in a by-election. Aitken made arrangements for this, but then Lloyd George decided to appoint Albert Stanley instead. Aitken was a friend of Stanley and agreed to continue with the resignation, so that Stanley could take Aitken's seat in Parliament and be eligible for ministerial office. In return, Aitken received a peerage on 23 January 1917 as the "1st Baron Beaverbrook", the name "Beaverbrook" being adopted from a small community near his boyhood home. He had initially considered "Lord Miramichi", but rejected it on the advice of Louise Manny as too difficult to pronounce.
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