Sir Harry Levy-Lawson

Sir Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham

(born 1862, died 1933)
President from 1924 until 1933.
Admitted to the Inner Temple as a barrister in 1891. Member of parliament, with some breaks, from 1885 until he succeeded to his father's title of Baron Burnham in 1916. He also succeeded his father in the ownership and management of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, which he sold to Lord Camrose in 1928. Created 1st Viscount Burnham in 1919.