Baron Burnham, of Hall Barn in the Parish of Beaconsfield in the County of Buckingham, is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Barons descend from Joseph Moses Levy,who acquired the Daily Telegraph months after its founding.His son Edward,who assumed the additional surname of Lawson in 1875,was created a Baronet in 1892 and Baron Burnham in 1903.Edward's eldest son Harry followed his father in the management and ownership of the newspaper,but sold it in 1928 to the 1st Viscount Camrose and partners.A viscounty conferred on Harry in 1919 died with him.After the sale,Harry's nephew the future 4th Baron and his son the future 6th Baron were executives of the newspaper until the Camrose interests were in turn displaced by Conrad Black.
The 1st Baron's sons retained the name Levy-Lawson though predominantly using Lawson,and the 4th Baron was registered with it at birth,but subsequently they have used Lawson only.
Daniel H. Burnham was one of the earliest modern city planners and, with his partner, John Wellborn Root, the architect of the first American skyscrapers.
Burnham was a popular and athletic student who always regretted failing his admissions tests for entering both Harvard and Yale.
Burnham's sons donated most of the records and drawings of their father to the Art Institute of Chicago, establishing the Burnham Library as one of the preeminent collections of architectural information in the world.
Burnham served as the chief coordinating architect for the World Columbian Exposition, of 1893, laying out the gargantuan "White City's" classical architecture in a monumental and rational Beaux-Arts plan.
Burnham designed the Flatiron Building in New York (1902), and the fully Beaux-Arts Union Station (Washington, DC), the linchpin that made development of the monumental Mall possibly, by removing the Pennsylvania Railroad's right-of-way along it.
Burnham was also commissioned by the U.S. Philippine Commission in 1904 to make plans for the then Colonial cities of Baguio and Manila.
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