Levy-Lawson was editor and in control of the paper long before his father's death in 1888.

From 1885, he was managing proprietor, and sole controller of his renamed The Daily Telegraph and became even more influential than his father on Fleet Street.

He was created a Baronet, of Hall Barn in the County of Buckingham, in 1892, and in 1903 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Burnham, of Hall Barn in the Parish of Beaconsfield in the County of Buckingham.

While it has been said that the shoot was not a slaughter and that very respectable birds were presented to the Guns, on the train journey home, the Prince of Wales noticed that the King was unusually quiet, his silence eventually broken when he famously said: "Perhaps we overdid it today.

"[8][9][6][10][11] Lord Burnham died on 9 January 1916, aged 82, in Forest Gate, London, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Harry.