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Hon Janet Gladys Aitken
1908 - 1988 (80 years)-
Name Janet Gladys Aitken Prefix Hon Birth 9 Jul 1908 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
Gender Female Burial 1988 St Michael Churchyard, Mickleham, Mole Valley, Surrey, England Death 18 Nov 1988 Ewhurst, Surrey. England [1] Person ID I8895 OrwinMillar Last Modified 30 Oct 2022
Father Baron William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Lord Beaverbrook, b. 26 May 1879, Maple, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada d. 9 Jun 1964, Cherkley Court, Leatherhead, Surrey, England (Age 85 years)Mother Lady Gladys Henderson Drury, b. 15 Feb 1885, Canada d. 1 Dec 1927, London, England (Age 42 years)Marriage 29 Jan 1906 Garrison Chapel, Halifax, Canada [2] Family ID F2942 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 
Sir Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, b. 18 Jun 1903, Paris, France d. 7 Apr 1973, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 69 years)Marriage 12 Dec 1927 Chelsea, Middlesex, England [2] Children 1. Lady Jeanne Louise Campbell, b. 10 Dec 1928, Kingston, Kent, England d. 4 Jun 2007, Greenwich Village, New York, NY. USA (Age 78 years)Family ID F3477 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Jun 2012
Family 2 Hon William Drogo Sturges Montagu, b. 29 May 1908, London, England d. 26 Jan 1940, Hinchingbrook, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 31 years)Marriage 1935 London, England [2] Children 1. William Edward Montagu, b. 9 Feb 1936 d. 6 Nov 2002, Langport, Somerset, England (Age 66 years)Family ID F3479 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Jul 2022
Family 3 Thomas Edward Dealtry Kidd, O.B.E., b. 8 Nov 1910, Kingston, Ontario, Canada d. 1979, Ewhurst, Surrey. England (Age 68 years)Marriage 11 Jul 1942 Chanctonbury, Sussex, England Children 1. Living 2. Living Family ID F3480 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Jun 2012
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Notes - In her autobiography she says she was born at Arm, Halifax. But in a biography of her father "Lord Beaverbrook, a Life" by Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie, her place of birth is given as Peurto Rico.
" He (Beaverbrook) planned to go south in January to recuperate: to Peurto Rico. 'I am leaving Mrs Aitken behind because she seems to be getting on so well here. Her family is in mourning and not going out at all and consequently she has no temptation to over-exert herself......... ."
".... their plans changed and she went with him to Peurto Rico.
The birth of their first child, Janet, on 9 Jul 1908, he said, 'increased the intimacy of our relationship."
When 6 Dec 1917 the French munitions ship, Mont Blanc, blew up, in Halifax Harbour, it destroyed government buildings housing the birth death and marriage records for Halifax.
This was supposedly why Janet never had a birth certificate.
More likely it was because she was not born in Halifax?
Janet was an invetrate traveller and it was she who first travelled to Barbados and found Holders House, which she purchased in 1963.
She was a great horsewoman and it was her idea that all the Kidd children should be named with names beginning with "J". This saved the cost of changing monogrammed horseboxes, saddlecloths, etc.
Thus we have Jane, John, Jemma, Jodie, Jack, etc.
Gourlay quotes Michael Foot (MP) in "The Beaverbrook I Knew" as saying 'Janet had strong streaks of the Beaverbrook charm ' but she did not possess her father's devotion to politics or journalism. 'Janet had a streak, too, of the old man's guile to add to the charm, but she was still no politician.
- In her autobiography she says she was born at Arm, Halifax. But in a biography of her father "Lord Beaverbrook, a Life" by Anne Chisholm and Michael Davie, her place of birth is given as Peurto Rico.
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