Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham
The 3rd Baron Burnham | |
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Personal details | |
Born | Harry Lawson Webster Levy 18 December 1862 St Pancras, London, England |
Died | 20 June 1933 | (aged 70)
Resting place | Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England |
Political party | Liberal Party Liberal Unionist Party Conservative Party |
Spouse |
Olive de Bathe (m. 1884) |
Children | 1 |
Parents |
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Education | Eton College |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Occupation | Newspaper owner |
Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham,
Biography
Levy-Lawson was born in St Pancras, London, in 1862, the son of Edward Levy (who was created Baron Burnham in 1903) and his wife Harriette Georgiana Webster. The family name was legally changed from Levy to Levy-Lawson on 11 December 1875.
He was educated at Cheam School, Headley, Berkshire, Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He became a lieutenant in the Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, treasurer of the Free Land League, vice president of the Municipal Reform League, and a member of the executive committee of Municipal Federation League.[1] In 1891, he was admitted to the Inner Temple, entitling him to practise as a barrister.[2]
Levy-Lawson was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for St Pancras West in the 1885 general election at the age of 23, but lost the seat in the 1892 general election. He was also a member of the London County Council from 1889 to 1892, for St Pancras West.
He was returned to the Commons as MP for Cirencester at a by-election in 1893 and held the seat until his defeat at the 1895 general election. In 1905 he was elected at a by-election as MP for Mile End and lost the seat in 1906, regaining it in January 1910.[3] In the interim he was Mayor of Stepney between 1907 and 1909. In 1911, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.[4]
Levy-Lawson was appointed a
He saw active service in the
He was the first chairman of the
Family, interests and Hall Barn
Levy-Lawson was created Viscount Burnham, of
His father, who was "one of the Prince of Wales' set", had purchased the 4,000-acre Hall Barn estate in 1880. Viscount Burnham and his father hosted King Edward VII and his son, King George V, and his son King Edward VIII on many occasions from the early 1900s to the 1930s. On 19 December 1924, for example, Burnham hosted a dinner party for King George V with Rudyard Kipling, Harry's daughter, Dorothy Levy-Lawson, and her husband, Major Sir John Coke, amongst the guests.[9]
Viscount Burnham was a JP for Buckinghamshire. He received a number of honorary doctorates from
He died aged 70 and was buried near his father on 24 July 1933 at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Burnham had no surviving male issue so the viscountcy became extinct: his younger brother, William Levy-Lawson (1864–1943), succeeded to the baronetcy and barony.
Arms
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References
- ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
- ^ a b the Peerage.com
- ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- ^ "No. 28504". The London Gazette. 16 June 1911. pp. 4514–4515.
- ^ Hart′s Army list, 1902.
- ^ "No. 27483". The London Gazette. 17 October 1902. p. 6570.
- ^ "Records of the Salaries Branch and Burnham Committees". The National Archives. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
- ISBN 9780333388471. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
Rosemary Olive (Baroness Hamilton of Dalzell), b 1910: m 1935, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell. Residence – Garden Cottage, Snowdenham House, Bramley, Guildford.— Celia Dorothy, b 1919: m 1942, Stamp Godfrey Brooksbank, Capt ...
- ISBN 9780877456575. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
...Lord Astor...Lord (Harry) Burnham, his brother and duplicate, his son-in-law (Sir John Spencer Coke)...I (Kipling) sat next to the King.... [notes - The Hon. Sir John Spencer Coke (1880-1957), son of the 2nd Earl Leicester, married the Hon. Dorothy Olive Lawson in 1907...]
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 1908.