William Maxwell Aitken

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author businessman historian human newspaper proprietor peer of the United Kingdom politician

William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	author → businessman → historian → human → newspaper proprietor → peer of the United Kingdom → politician →
alsoKnownAs	Lord Beaverbrook → Max Aitken →
awardReceived	Companion of Honour →
burialPlace	Cherkley Court estate, Surrey, England →
causeOfDeath	cancer →
countryOfCitizenship	Canada → United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth	1879-05-25 →
dateOfDeath	1964-06-09 →
educatedAt	Dalhousie University (did not graduate) → Mount Allison University (did not graduate) →
employer	Daily Express → Evening Standard → Sunday Express →
familyName	Aitken →
fatherOf	Maxwell William Humphrey Aitken →
genre	memoir → political history →
givenName	William →
honorificPrefix	The Right Honourable →
memberOf	House of Commons of the United Kingdom → House of Lords →
middleName	Maxwell →
nobleTitle	Baron Beaverbrook →
notableFor	building the Daily Express into a mass-circulation newspaper → role in British propaganda during World War I → role in aircraft production and supply during World War II →
notableWork	Friends: Sixty Years of Intimate Personal Relations with Richard Bedford Bennett → Men and Power → Politicians and the War → The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George → The Divine Propagandist →
owned	Daily Express → Evening Standard → Sunday Express →
placeOfBirth	Maple, Ontario, Canada →
placeOfDeath	Leatherhead, Surrey, England →
politicalAlignment	Conservative Party (UK) →
positionHeld	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster → Lord Privy Seal → Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne → Member of Parliament for North West Ham → Minister of Aircraft Production → Minister of Supply →
residence	Cherkley Court, Surrey, England →
spouse	Gladys Henderson Drury NERFINISHED →
title	1st Baron Beaverbrook →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Lord Beaverbrook →	birthName