Burnham, Harry Lawson-Webster Levy-Lawson (1862-1933)

English politician and newspaper proprietor. He presided over the International Labour Conferences in Geneva, Switzerland (1921, 1922, and 1926). His name is perpetuated in the ‘Burnham scale’ by which schoolteachers' salaries are calculated, the result of a standing committee which he chaired. He became manager of the Daily Telegraph in 1903, and proprietor in 1916. He sold the newspaper in 1928.