Person    | Male  Born 25/5/1879  Died 9/6/1964

Lord Beaverbrook

Newspaper publisher and politician. Born William Maxwell Aitken in Maple, Ontario. He came to Britain in 1910, and served as an MP 1911-16. In 1919, he took over The Daily Express, and later founded The Sunday Express. In WW2, Winston Churchill made him Minister of Supply, and later Lord Privy Seal. 

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