Hon Janet Gladys Aitken

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• _UID: 2B9A49C765DE461893FCA5D0C5CAE17D67C4
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, 23 Parkside, Knightsbridge, London, England
• Residence: 8 Apr 1927, Stornoway House, St James, London
• Immigration: 5 Aug 1962, New York, New York, USA
• Residence: 5 Aug 1962, Milverton, Somerset, England
• Residence: 18 Nov 1988, The Maple Stud, Ewhurst, Surrey, England

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.

Residence:
Arrived Southampton on board the "Majestic" from New York

Immigration:
Arrived on Flight BA 505 from London

Janet married Sir Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll on 12 Dec 1927 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England. Ian (son of Douglas Walter Campbell and Aimee Lawrence) was born on 18 Jun 1903 in Paris, France; died on 7 Apr 1973 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Janet married Hon William Drogo Sturges Montagu in 1935 in London, England. William (son of Lord George Charles Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich and Alberta Sturges) was born on 29 May 1908 in London, England; died on 26 Jan 1940 in Hinchingbrook, Huntingdonshire, England; was cremated on 30 Jan 1940 in St Mary Magdalene Church, Brampton, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Janet married Thomas Edward Dealtry Kidd, O.B.E. on 11 Jul 1942 in Chanctonbury, Sussex, England. Thomas was born on 8 Nov 1910 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada; died in 1979 in Ewhurst, Surrey. England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Newspaper Reporter
• _UID: A68E853DE4BA4875AB55D33A8B83760FF11B
• Emigration: 16 Jun 1951, New York, New York, USA
• Immigration: 4 Jan 1962, New York, New York, USA
• Residence: 1992-1993, 244 W 11th Street, Apt 2f, New York, New York, USA

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When Jeanne was 2 her mother, Janet, ran away from Jeanne's father and dumped Jeanne onto her grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook. Beaverbrook brought her up for the next 9 years, when Jeanne was sent to boarding schools.
Wanting to become an actress she joined the "Old Vic".
After contracting pneumonia she decided that draughty stages and cold "digs" were not for her. She joined the family business as a newspaper reporter and travelled the world with her grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook.
Eventually she met the author Norman Mailer. Jeffrey Meyers, in the National Review, 26 Jul 1985, says, she was the mistress of Henry Luce the founder of "Time-Life". And this is what attracted Norman Mailer to her.
Within a few months Jean was pregnant with Kate. Norman was taken to meet Beaverbrook in the south of France who liked him and so gave his aproval so Jean and Norman married in 1962.
The marriage was a stormy one and was not destined to last.

James Humes, the author, on being interviewed, by Brian Lamb, about his book "Ghostwriter to 5 Presidents" gives the following story;
Lamb. "And then there is another story about a relative of Lord Beaverbrook.Humes. "Yes. Well, there was Lady Jean Campbell who was a kind of a - she was the grandaughter of Beaverbrook. and I was going out in - 1964 convention."
Lamb. "San Francisco?"
Humes. "Wa - Yea. And I was for Scranton. And I was a Legislator in the Legislature and Scranton was the Governor. I see Jacob Javits, and next to it an English voice. And so I started talking. We established friends, and she said 'Oh, my' - - she had this - - her grandfather had given her this job, she's no journalist, and what should she do?
I gave her a headline.
I take her to lunch at Ernie's.
Now I do not know that she's married.....
We just go for lunch. And we'd just ordered our first course of shrimp. Suddenly she says, 'It's my husband! He'll kill you! He'll kill you!
So we went out through the kitchen, out the back door, and I never did pay for the shrimp. I mean it was Norman Mailer and I think he did actually stab some one in jealousy a couple of years earlier.
She's quite a character - is quite a charcter. I guess - I mean, I think she's now in an Anglican convent.
But there are rumours of her - strong rumours that she's the only person in the world who knew, biblically speaking, in one year, Khrushev, Kennedy, and Castro."

After Jeanne left Norman she fled to her best friend, a southern aristocrat, John Cram, with a plantation in North Carolina.
Norman and Jeanne were divorced in 1963.
Between 1978 and 1988 Jeanne was "High Commissioner for the Clan Campbell Society of North America".
Her marriage, to John Cram, does not seem to have been very successful either.
In 1995 Jeanne said, in a newspaper article, "I think I am still married. I haven't seen him for quite some time but I have had no notification."

Jeanne resided in New York.
She converted from the Church of England and became a Roman Catholic. Working as a volunteer she worked for Mother Teresa's Hospice for Aids patients, in New York.
Between 1974 and 1988 Jeanne was "High Commissioner for the Clan Campbell Society of North America".


Emigration:
Departed on board flight BOAC 514/007 for London

Immigration:
Arrived on Flight BOAC 501 from London

Jeanne married Norman Kingsley Mailer in 1962, and was divorced in 1963 in Mexico. Norman (son of Isaac Barnet Mailer and Fanny Schneider) was born on 31 Jan 1923 in Long, Branch, New Jersey, USA; died on 11 Nov 2007 in New York, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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