William Maxwell Aitken first Baron Beaverbrook

She began her writing career as a gossip columnist for the Daily Express in 1923. She was soon noticed by her first employer, Lord Beaverbrook , and by his friends Winston Churchill , F. E. Smith

Around 1920, BC accepted a proposal from Dick Usher , but when her mother told her about the details of sexual relations she was so horrified that she broke off the engagement. She also claimed...

Her paternal grandfather, Sir James Dunn (a wily and opportunistic financier from New Brunswick in Canada), was twice divorced, the second time in 1942. He lived until the first day of 1956 and died...

Through the 1920s, RW had several brief and sometimes conflicted romantic liaisons with men. In 1920 she made some moves towards having an affair with Compton Mackenzie in retaliation for Wells 's continuing infidelities. During...

This novel centres around the family and professional relationships of a man with a will to power: J. G. (or Sir James) Baron, a newspaper magnate. PF insisted that this character was not based on...

AB was appointed first director of British propaganda in France. By the end of September he became director of propaganda for the Ministry of Information , an unpaid position reporting directly to Lord Beaverbrook .

An extraordinarily prolific English writer of both literary-realist and mass-interest novels, short stories, pocket philosophy self-help manuals, plays, journal articles and book reviews, AB was acclaimed as an artist in his own time and was...

At the suggestion of Venetia Montagu , LCA wrote a journalistic article intended for, but not accepted by, Lord Beaverbrook 's Sunday Express (launched the previous month).

AB was publicly accused of modelling Raingo (in a book whose characters include several portraits from life) on his friend and erstwhile employer Lord Beaverbrook . He responded vigorously to this charge. In fact Beaverbrook...

The Standard (which had from time to time, from early in his career, carped at him in reviews) now belonged to his friend Lord Beaverbrook , whom he had advised on a policy of moving...

This semi-autobiographical novel was West's third to appear after her death. Dedicated to G. B. Stern , it was based on West's affair with Lord Beaverbrook . In 1928 she still planned to...

Working for the Labour Party in summer 1945, CM wrote a number of reports on current and remembered political issues: among other things she covered the fishing industry (ten thousand words), the government of New...

Their drop in income was partly due to the fact that Tony Maxtone Graham's father had offended Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook . Having moved once, they quickly moved again.