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{{Short description|Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom}}
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{{Infobox nobility title
| name              = Barony of Beaverbrook 
| image             = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|150px]]<br/>[[File:Arms of Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook.svg|180px]] 
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| alt               =  
| caption           = ''Argent two barrulets wavy azure between in chief two maple leaves slipped and in base a thistle eradicated gules, a bordure sable charged with eight bezants''<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link=Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=314 |ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>
| creation_date     = 2 January 1917<ref name="gaz">{{Edinburgh Gazette |issue=13044 |date=26 January 1917  |page=228}}</ref> 
| monarch           = King [[George V]] 
| peerage           = [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]] 
| first_holder      = [[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook|Sir Max Aitken, 1st Baronet]] 
| last_holder       =  
| present_holder    = [[Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook]] 
| heir_apparent     = The Hon. Maxwell Francis Aitken 
| heir_presumptive  =  
| remainder_to      = 1st Baron's [[heirs male]] [[heirs of the body|of the body]] lawfully begotten 
| status            =  
| extinction_date   =  
| family_seat       = Denchworth Manor 
| former_seat       = [[Cherkley Court]] 
| motto             = ''Res mihi non me rebus'' ([[Latin]] for 'Possessions for me, not me for possessions')<ref name="burke"/> 
| footnotes         =  
}}
'''Baron Beaverbrook''', of [[Beaver Brook Station, New Brunswick|Beaverbrook]] in the Province of [[New Brunswick]] in the Dominion of Canada and of [[Cherkley]] in the [[Surrey|County of Surrey]], is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]. It was created in 1917 for the prominent media owner and politician [[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook|Sir Max Aitken, 1st Baronet]]. He had already been created a [[baronet]], of Cherkley in the County of Surrey, on 3 July 1916. When Aitken died, his son [[Peerage Act 1963|disclaimed]] the barony three days later, stating that "there shall only be one Lord Beaverbrook in my lifetime". Since 1985, the title has been held by the latter's son, the third baron.

The first Baron Beaverbrook's daughter, [[Janet Gladys Aitken]], was the mother of John Edward Aitken Kidd. He is the father of [[Jemma Wellesley, Marchioness of Douro]], and [[Jodie Kidd]]. Another member of the Aitken family is the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician [[Jonathan Aitken]], who is the great-nephew of the first Baron Beaverbrook.

The family seat is Denchworth Manor, near [[Wantage]] in [[Oxfordshire]]. Replicas of the first baron's two favourite cats can be viewed in the public research room of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.

==Barons Beaverbrook (1917)==
*[[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook|William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook]] (1879–1964)
*[[Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet|John William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 2nd Baron Beaverbrook]] (1910–1985) ([[Peerage Act 1963|disclaimed]] 1964)
*[[Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook|Maxwell William Humphrey Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook]] (b. 1951)

The [[heir apparent]] is the present holder's son, The Hon. Maxwell Francis Aitken (b. 1977). The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son, Maxwell Alfonso Aitken (b. 2014).

==Line of succession==
{{tree list}}
* [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] ''William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (1879–1964)''
** [[File:Ulster.svg|15px]] ''Sir John William Maxwell Aitken, 2nd Baronet (1910–1985) ([[Peerage Act 1963|disclaimed]] 1964)''
*** [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|15px]] '''Maxwell William Humphrey Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook''' (born 1951)
**** '''(1)''' The Hon. Maxwell Francis Aitken (b. 1977)
***** '''(2)''' Maxwell Alfonso Aitken (b. 2014)
**** '''(3)''' The Hon. Alexander Rory Aitken (b. 1978)
** ''Captain The Hon. Peter Rudyard Aitken (1912–1947)''
*** '''(4)''' Timothy Maxwell Aitken (b. 1944)
**** '''(5)''' Theodore Maxwell Aitken (b. 1976)
**** '''(6)''' Charles Howard Filstead Aitken (b. 1979)
*** '''(7)''' Peter Michael Aitken (b. 1946)
**** '''(8)''' James Aitken
**** '''(9)''' Jason Aitken
{{tree list/end}}

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/104 | location=London |publisher=London: Dean & son, limited|page=104}}

{{Extant Barons of the United Kingdom}}

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