Edward Lawson, 4th Baron Burnham
| The Lord Burnham | |
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| Birth name | Edward Frederick Lawson |
| Born | 16 June 1890 |
| Died | 4 July 1963 |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 Territorial Army
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| Years of service | 1910–1945 |
| Rank | Major-General |
| Unit | Royal Bucks Hussars |
| Commands held |
Middlesex Yeomanry 99th (Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Yeomanry) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery CRA, 48th (South Midland) Division GOC, Yorkshire County Division |
| Battles/wars |
Gallipoli Palestine Dunkirk |
| Awards |
Companion of the Bath Distinguished Service Order Military Cross Territorial Decoration Three Mentions in dispatches |
| Relations |
1st Baron Burnham (Grandfather) 3rd Baron Burnham (Father) Viscount Burnham (Uncle) |
| Other work | Managing Director, The Daily Telegraph Senior Military Adviser, Ministry of Information Director of Public Relations, War Office Chairman, Labour Committee, Newspaper Publishers' Association |
Major-General Edward Frederick Lawson, 4th Baron Burnham, CB, DSO, MC, TD (1890–1963) was a British newspaper executive and Territorial Army officer who served with distinction in both World Wars.
Lawson was born on 16 June 1890, the eldest son of Colonel William Arnold Webster Levy-Lawson (1864–1943) and his wife Sibyl Mary Marshall, eldest daughter of Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Marshall. His father was the younger son of Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham, proprietor of The Daily Telegraph and had served in the Scots Guards and then in the part-time Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars), with which he had won a Distinguished Service Order (DSO) during the 2nd Boer War.
Edward Lawson was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a third-class degree in modern history in 1913 and played Polo for the university. In 1910 he was commissioned into the Royal Bucks Hussars, of which his father became Honorary Colonel in 1913.
On leaving Oxford, Lawson joined the family newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, as a reporter, first in Paris and then in New York. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he returned to the UK to serve with the Royal Bucks Hussars.
The Royal Bucks Hussars was embodied on the outbreak of war and went to its war station near Bury St Edmunds, later joining a concentration of mounted troops around Churn on the Berkshire Downs. In November the 2nd Mounted Division, of which the Royal Bucks formed part, was sent to guard the East Coast in Norfolk. In April 1915 the division was shipped to Egypt, where it was reorganised as a small dismounted division and sent to Gallipoli.
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