Mr Edward Levy; The Daily Telegraph. No. 229. (Original Lithograph.)
London: Vanity Fair, 1873. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 22 March 1873.
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham KCVO (28 December 1833 – 9 January 1916), known as Sir Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baronet, from 1892 to 1903, was a British newspaper proprietor. Levy-Lawson was the son of Joseph Moses Levy and his wife Esther (née Cohen). His father had acquired the Daily Telegraph - known as The Daily Telegraph and Courier - in 1855 only months after its founding. Levy-Lawson was editor and in control of the paper long before his father's death in 1888. From 1885, he was managing proprietor and sole controller of his renamed Daily Telegraph and became even more influential than his father on Fleet Street. In 1875, he assumed by Royal licence the surname of Lawson in addition to and after that of Levy. He bought the Hall Barn estate in 1880. Levy-Lawson was created a Baronet, of Hall Barn in the County of Buckingham in 1892, and in 1903 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burnham, of Hall Barn in the Parish of Beaconsfield in the County of Buckingham. In 1886, he was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. Item #18-3339
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