What is Lord Beaverbrook famous for?
The story of its most famous resident, Lord Beaverbrook, still remains interwoven throughout its walls. A kingmaker, powerbroker (and sometime mischief maker), Lord Beaverbrook was a consummate politician, publicist of boundless energy, and great friend of Winston Churchill. During Beaverbrook’s time, the house attracted many famous weekend guests including Winston Churchill, Bonar Law, Rebecca West, H. G. Wells, Harold Macmillan and Rudyard Kipling.
Who is the current Lord Beaverbrook?
Maxwell William Humphrey Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook (born 29 December 1951) is a British peer and politician. Before Lord Beaverbrook died in 1964 in Surrey, England he said, My last home will be where my heart has always dwelt. And in accordance with his wishes, his ashes were interred in his beloved Square in Newcastle. William Maxwell Aitken spent his boyhood in Newcastle.