The Cowes-Torquay was launched by Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet as the first offshore powerboat racing sport in Britain in 1961.

This was the beginning of an improbable but important friendship with Max Aitken, later the industrialist and British press baron, Lord Beaverbrook.

Max Aitken ( later known as Lord Beaverbrook ) was his office boy, while articling as a lawyer, acting as a stringer for the Montreal Gazette, and selling life insurance.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook | Lord Beaverbrook served as Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick and became the university's greatest benefactor.

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William Maxwell " Max " Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Bt, PC, ONB, ( 25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964 ) was an Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer.

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Cherkley Court on the Beaverbrook grounds was home of Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook.

In 1927, he accepted an invitation from Max Aitken to join the conservative Evening Standard on the strict understanding that there would be no editorial interference with his output.

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* Max Aitken — Canada at Flanders

* Rex Mottram-A Canadian of great ambition, said to be based on Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, a Canadian ; and Brendan Bracken.

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* Max Aitken – The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George

* Luke Harding, David Leigh and David Pallister ( 1997 ), The Liar: The Fall of Jonathan Aitken, London: Penguin Books Ltd.

*" The Rise & Fall Of Laurel Aitken " ( 1969, Dr. Bird )

He made a major contribution to Jamaican music with his " Vere John's Opportunity Knocks Talent Show " on RJR Radio, which helped to launch the careers of several major recording artists including Lloyd Charmers, Hortense Ellis, John Holt, Bob Andy, Desmond Dekker, The Wailers, Alton Ellis, Jackie Edwards, Dobby Dobson, Boris Gardiner, Laurel Aitken, and Millie Small.

* Laurel Aitken Meets Floyd Lloyd and the Potato Five ( 1987, Gaz's ) ( with The Potato 5 )

Pastoralists John Aitken and George Russell suggested forming a partnership, and in August 1834 a group of eight Launceston capitalists formed what became the Port Phillip Association.

The action collapsed in June 1997 ( a month after he had lost his seat in the 1997 General Election ) when the Guardian and Granada produced, via their counsel George Carman QC, evidence countering his claim that his wife, Lolicia Aitken, paid for the hotel stay at the Ritz Hotel in Paris.

Already a close friend of fellow New Brunswickers, Max Aitken ( Lord Beaverbrook ) and a bright young lawyer named Richard Bennett, Dunn's brokerage work led to even more business connections with some of the elite of corporate Canada, including George Alexander Drummond, Henry Pellatt and the up-and-coming Izaak Walton Killam.

According to pastoralist George Russell, Clarke had acted on information obtained from Mr Aitken, an Edinburgh man, who was most put out when he discovered that Clarke had beaten him to the Pentland Hills run.

The novel includes many of the momentous historical personages of the day: Chamberlain, the ailing and pacifist Prime Minister ; Churchill, the political outcast, whose pugnacity created opprobrium in the public eye ; Joseph Kennedy, the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's ; Guy Burgess, an alcoholic BBC journalist of later Cold War infamy ; the machiavellian newspaper mogul, Max Aitken, ( Lord Beaverbrook ), and the stuttering and insecure King George VI, who personally detests Churchill and tries to persuade his good friend, Lord Halifax, to take the reins of leadership.

Senior Pastor Wes Richards introduced his coming as a great privilege and described Aitken as a friend both to himself and the church.

Roy Aitken, who was born and raised in the town, went on to become one of the great captains of Celtic Football Club in the 1980s, and also captained the Scotland International Team.

He formed a studio with the Majestic Studio manager Harry Aitken ; it became known as Reliance-Majestic Studios ( and was later renamed Fine Arts Studio ).

His new production company became an autonomous production unit partner in Triangle Film Corporation along with Thomas Ince and Keystone Studios ' Mack Sennett ; the Triangle Film Corporation was headed by Griffith's partner Harry Aitken, who was released from the Mutual Film Corporation, and his brother Roy.

Defence Minister Jonathan Aitken was accused by the ITV investigative journalism series World In Action and The Guardian newspaper of secretly doing deals with leading Saudi princes.

Bennett was elected by one vote, and was later furious with Aitken when he heard all the promises he had made on Bennett's behalf.

This version, released in 1989 was produced by British songwriting and production team formed of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman known as Stock Aitken Waterman.

In 1989, a charity version of the song was recorded by Liverpool artists The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden, and Stock Aitken Waterman, and was released in aid of those affected by the Hillsborough disaster.

This moon basin was named for two features on opposing sides ; the crater Aitken on the northern end and the southern lunar pole at the other end.

In January 1994, British Minister of State for Defence Procurement Jonathan Aitken ( answering a Question to the Secretary of State for Defence ) confirmed in parliamentary debates that a Russian T-80U tank was imported for " defence research and development purposes ".

The initial plan was for a university college in Coventry attached to Birmingham but Aitken advised an independent initiative to the University Grants Committee.

By the late 1980s, the British music was symbolised by a robust sound such as a Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet and the pop music of Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

Her beauty was much spoken of, and she had youthful romances with playboy Prince Aly Khan, millionaire aviator Glen Kidston, car salesman Baron Martin Stillman von Brabus, and publishing heir Max Aitken.

The prototype of the chain saw familiar today in the timber industry was pioneered in the late 18th Century by two Scottish doctors, John Aitken and James Jeffray, for symphysiotomy and excision of diseased bone respectively.

Max Aitken was at Stairs ' bedside when he died in Toronto.

The race was the penultimate round of the championship, with Dario Resta leading Johnny Aitken after his Vanderbilt Cup win.

According to E. H. Aitken ( the first Honorary Secretary, September 1883-March 1886 ), Dr G. A. Maconochie was the fons et origo of the Society.

Despite their reunion, Matt Aitken was soon to leave again.