Canadian-British aristocrat and socialite (1908–1988)
The Honourable
Janet Gladys Aitken
Aitken in 1926
Born
9 July 1908
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died
18 November 1988 (aged 80)
Ewhurst, Surrey, England
Resting place
St. Michael's Churchyard, Mickleham
Other names
Janet Campbell Janet Montagu Janet Kidd
Occupations
Socialite
writer
equestrian
pilot
horse breeder
Spouses
Ian Douglas Campbell
(m. 1927; div. 1934)
William Drogo Sturges Montagu
(m. 1935; died 1940)
Thomas Edward Dealtry Kidd
(m. 1942; died 1979)
Children
4, including Lady Jeanne Campbell
Parents
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (father)
Gladys Henderson Drury (mother)
Relatives
Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet (brother)
Jodie Kidd (granddaughter)
Jemma Wellesley, Countess of Mornington (granddaughter)
Cusi Cram (granddaughter)
Kate Mailer (granddaughter)
Janet Gladys Aitken (later Campbell, Montagu, and Kidd; 9 July 1908 – 18 November 1988) was a Canadian-British aristocrat and socialite. The daughter of Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, she grew up at Cherkley Court in Surrey. She was the first wife of Ian Campbell, later the Duke of Argyll, and the mother of Lady Jeanne Campbell. Her second husband, who was a son of the 9th Earl of Sandwich, died in World War II. She married a third time to the Canadian army officer Major Thomas Edward Dealtry Kidd.
An accomplished equestrian, Aitken served as a director of the All England Jumping Course at Hickstead for over twenty years. In her later life she obtained a license as a helicopter pilot and bred Fjord horses on her farm in Ewhurst, Surrey. A prominent socialite of her time, she was known to entertain members of the international jet set, politicians, and royalty at her second home in Barbados, where she was a friend and neighbour of the American diplomat W. Averell Harriman. In 1987, the year before she died, Aitken authored an autobiography titled The Beaverbrook Girl.
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