Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham (15 August 1931 – 1 January 2005), was a British hereditary peer and journalist.

Early life and education

Burnham was born in 1931, the younger son of Major General Edward Lawson, 4th Baron Burnham, and his wife Marie Enid Robson. He was educated at Eton and read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford.

Career

Initially working for the Cambridge Evening News, Burnham joined The Daily Telegraph prior to its 1986 takeover by Conrad Black and held the positions of general manager and deputy managing director in the 1970s and 80s.

He inherited the barony and a seat in the House of Lords upon the death of his elder brother William Lawson, 5th Baron Burnham in 1993. He had a career in the House of Lords as a Conservative defence spokesman and junior whip.[1] He was one of the 90 hereditary peers selected to remain in the Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.[2]

Marriage and children

Burnham married Hilary Hunter on 31 December 1955. They had three children:[3][4]

Death

Lord Burnham died in January 2005 at the age of 73. He was succeeded in the barony by his only son, Harry.

Arms

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Quarterly 1st & 4th Azure three bars gemel Argent over all a winged morion Or 2nd & 3rd Gules a saltire double parted and fretted Or between in fess two rams' heads couped in fess Argent.
Supporters
Dexter the figure of Clio the Muse of history Proper sinister the figure of Hermes vested Argent mantled Azure on the head of a winged morion on his heels wings and in his exterior hand a caduceus Or.[5]
Motto
Of Old I Hold

Notes

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References

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  4. ↑ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, vol. 1, p. 594.
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Peerage of the United Kingdom
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1993–2005
Member of the House of Lords
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 Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under the House of Lords Act 1999
1999–2005 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by

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