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Aitken, William Maxwell, (1879-1964), 1st Baron Beaverbrook, newspaper proprietor

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Alternative name(s):
  • Beaverbrook (Also known as)
Surname: Aitken
Forenames: William Maxwell
Gender: Male
Date: 1879-1964
Title: 1st Baron Beaverbrook
History: Newspaper proprietor. Knighted 1911; Baron 1917. Con MP 1910. Minister of Information and Privy Cllr 1918. Purchased Daily Express 1916, launched Sunday Express 1918, acquired Evening Standard 1922. Minister of Supply 1941; Lord Privy Seal 1943-45.
Biography: ODNB link for Aitken, William Maxwell (1879-1964) 1st Baron Beaverbrook, newspaper proprietor
References: DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P274812 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P149976 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for William Maxwell Aitken
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1910-64: corresp and papers
Parliamentary Archives
BBK
NRA 19284 Aitken

See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
2
1902-52: Canadian corresp
Library and Archives Canada
MG27 IIG1
See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories, suppl 1981-82
3
1928-64: Canadian corresp
University of New Brunswick Library
See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories, suppl 1977-78
4
1941: papers
The National Archives
CAB 127/239-58
5
papers
News UK Archive
NRA 19359 The Times
6
1918-35: letters (31) from John Buchan
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
Acc.7006
7
1941-1962: corresp with AV Alexander
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
AVAR
NRA 12665 Alexander
8
1957-64: corresp with Lord Avon
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
AP 23/8
NRA 28779 Eden
9
1928: corresp with AJ Balfour rel to "Politicans and the War"
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD433
NRA 10026 Balfour

See NRA(S)0012
10
1931-32: corresp with Arnold Bennett's solicitors
London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
MS ADD 299
NRA 29882 Bennett
11
1952-64: corresp with Geoffrey Bocca
Parliamentary Archives
BBK C/46
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
12
corresp with Austen Chamberlain
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
AC/15
NRA 12604 Chamberlain
13
1931-45: corresp with Lord Cherwell
Oxford University: Nuffield College Library
CSAC 80.4.81
NRA 16447
14
1924-1936: corresp with Duff Cooper
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
DUFC
NRA 31392
15
1916-1947: corresp with Lord Croft
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
CRFT
NRA 15709 Croft
16
1915-56: corresp with Viscount Davidson
Parliamentary Archives
DAV
NRA 33872
17
1922-23: corresp with 17th Earl of Derby
Liverpool Record Office
920 DER
NRA 20761
18
1959-63: letters to Desmond Donnelly
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
Desmond Donnelly Papers/A
NRA 41723
19
corresp with Henry Drummond-Wolff
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
NRA 27395
20
1927-32: corresp with Lord Elibank
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD32
NRA 11852 Murray

See NRA(S)0367 1172
21
1925-60: corresp with WA Gerhardie
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
MS Add.8292
NRA 42210
22
1931-59: letters to Charles Graves
Parliamentary Archives
HL/PO/RO/1/86
23
1944: corresp with Lord Halifax
Borthwick Institute for Archives: University of York
Halifax papers
NRA 8128 Wood
24
1924-45: letters from TM Healy
National Library of Ireland
See Accessions to Repositories 1979
25
corresp with Sir Samuel Hoare
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Templewood Papers
NRA 42205 Hoare
26
1910-23: corresp (c100 items) with Andrew Bonar Law
Parliamentary Archives
BL
NRA 19286
27
1932-63: corresp with Sir BH Liddell Hart
King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
KCLMA Liddell Hart B H
NRA 19291
28
1916-44: corresp with David Lloyd George
Parliamentary Archives
LG
NRA 15700
29
1912-31: corresp with HA Gwynne
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Gwynne MSS
See Chris Cook, Sources in British political history 1900-1951 vol 5 1978
30
1923-63: corresp with David Low
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
GEN MSS 96
31
1940-43: letters to the Manchester Guardian
Manchester University: University of Manchester Library
Guardian archives
NRA 18162 Guardian
32
1936-1954: corresp with Lord Monckton
Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections
Dep Monckton
NRA 20879 Monckton
33
1911-22: corresp with Lord Northcliffe
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 62161
34
1931: corresp with Walter Runciman rel to international loans
Newcastle University: Special Collections
WR
NRA 13873
35
1931-45: corresp with Herbert Samuel
Parliamentary Archives
SAM
NRA 11187
36
1920-41: corresp with 3rd Earl of Selborne
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
Selborne papers
NRA 22802
37
1919-56: corresp with Marie Stopes
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 58555
38
1922-26: corresp with John St Loe Strachey
Parliamentary Archives
STR
NRA 19285
39
corresp with JH Thomas
Kent History and Library Centre
U1625
NRA 15918
40
1964: corresp with Lady Rhys Williams
London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections
Rhys Williams Papers/11/1/1
NRA 41138
41
1939-1954: corresp with Leo Amery
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
AMEL