Honourable Janet Gladys AITKEN

1908 - 1988  (80 years)

• Name	Janet Gladys AITKEN
  	Previously: Honourable Janet Gladys (AITKEN) CAMPBELL, Duchess of Argyll
  Title	Honourable
  Birth	9 Jul 1908	Halifax, New Brunswick County, Nova Scotia, Canada   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	18 Nov 1988	Surrey South Western, Surrey County, England   [2, 3]
  	Chicago Tribune 23 November 1988 p. 27a-b Janet Kidd, socialite and 'Beaverbrook Girl' London (AP) - Janet Kidd, socialite daughter of the first Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian-born newspaper magnate and politician, has died at the age of 80, her family reported Tuesday. Mrs. Kidd died Friday at her home in the village of Ewhurst 25 miles southwest of London. No cause of death was given. In 1987, she published "The Beaverbrook Girl," a lively volume of memoirs about her active and adventurous life,which included horse breeding and flying helicopters. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Max Aitken and his first wife, Gladys Drury. In 1910, her multimillionaire father brought the family to live in England, where he became a Conservative Party legislator and in 1916 bought the Daily Express, turning it into a major national newspaper. He was made a peer with the title of Lord Beaverbrook in 1917. In World War II he served as ministerof aircraft production and later minister of supply. Janet Kidd grew up surrounded by celebrities, including writer Rudyard Kipling and politician Lloyd George. She met her first husband, Ian Campbell, a compulsive gambler and heir to a dukedom, in the casino at the fashionable French resort of Le Touquet. Married in 1927, they were divorced in 1934. [2]
  Person ID	I22	Clan Campbell Genealogy
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	William Maxwell AITKEN, Lord Beaverbrook
  Mother	Gladys Henderson DRURY
  Family ID	F43	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Ian Douglas CAMPBELL, Duke of Argyll,   b. 18 Jun 1903, Farnham, Surrey County, England d. 7 Apr 1973, Haymarket, Edinburgh, Scotland (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	12 Dec 1927	Chelsea, London, England   [2, 4, 5]
  Divorce	30 May 1934	London, England   [2, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Lady Jeanne Louise CAMPBELL,   b. 10 Dec 1928, Kingston, Surrey County, England d. 4 Jun 2007, New York, USA (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F9	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Living
  Family ID	F14	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2025

  
  

  Family 3	Living
  Family ID	F15	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Births (CR) Canada, 9 Jul 1908, No. 720. p. 94. Halifax, New Brunswick County, Nova Scotia. AITKEN, Janet Gladys. Collection: Canada, New Brunswick County Register of Births, 1801-1920. Image 336/561. DGS 7562205. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G96Z-LWX2 [The register entry has a line through it as if it was crossed out and deleted.] [S26] Chicago Tribune, 23 Nov 1988, p. 27a-b. Obituaries. KIDD, Janet. [S12] Deaths index (CR) England, November 1988., Vol. 17. p. 1351. Surrey Southwestern, Surrey County. KIDD, Honourable Janet Gladys. [S9] Marriages index (CR) England, 4th Qtr., 1927., Vol. 1a. p. 988. Chelsea, London. CAMPBELL, Ian D. and AITKEN, Janet G. [S37] Oban Times and Argyllshire Advertiser, 17 Mar 1951, p. 5c. Duke of Argyll Divorced: Duchess granted custody of two children. [S13] Evening (Birmingham) Dispatch, 30 May 1934, p. 1e. Lord Beaverbrook’s Daughter.