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Viscount Leverhulme, of the Western Isles in the Counties of Inverness and Ross and Cromarty, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1922 for the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Baron Leverhulme.
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme FRGS FRIBA, (/ ˈ l iː v ə /, / ˈ l iː v ə h juː m /; 19 September 1851 – 7 May 1925) was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician.
- Elizabeth Ellen Hulme
- Bolton Church Institute, University of Edinburgh
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Mar 21, 2024 · Lever, elected to Parliament in 1906, was raised to the peerage as a baron in 1917 and became a viscount in 1922. “Leverhulme” was a combination of his own name and his wife’s maiden name, Hulme.
William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme, DL (25 March 1888 – 27 May 1949), was the son of William Hesketh Lever and Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of Crompton Hulme of Bolton. He was educated at Eton College and graduated from Cambridge University ( Trinity College) in 1913 with a master's degree in the Arts.
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, lived from 19 September 1851 to 7 May 1925. More usually referred to as Lord Leverhulme, he was an English industrialist, philanthropist and colonialist who, amongst many other ventures, for a time owned the whole of Lewis and Harris and had a profound and lasting influence on the island.
William Hesketh Lever, first Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925) Listen. W H Lever was a successful soap manufacturer who founded the model industrial village of Port Sunlight, one of the most significant of its kind in Europe. He grew up in Bolton and entered his father’s grocery business at the age of 16, becoming a partner in 1872.
Becoming Viscount Leverhulme. Lever was made a Baronet in 1911, becoming Sir William, and Elizabeth became Lady Lever. She died very suddenly in 1913, so when he was made a Baron in 1917 and then a Viscount in 1922, he combined his own name with his late wife’s maiden name to create the title ‘Leverhulme’.
