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  1. www.britannica.com › topic › UnileverUnilever | Global Consumer Goods Giant | Britannica

    Jun 29, 2024 · In the following decade, in 1885, in Britain, William Hesketh Lever (later Viscount Leverhulme), together with his brother, James Darcy Lever, founded Lever Brothers for the making and selling of soap. He was first to market the wrapped bar of soap made from tallow and vegetable and cottonseed oils and, even more important, introduced energetic ...

  2. www.wethementors.com › people › william-leverWilliam Lever - Wethementors

    Jun 19, 2024 · Leverhulme was involved with freemasonry and by 1902 was first initiate to a lodge bearing his name, William Hesketh Lever Lodge No. 2916, he later formed Leverhulme Lodge 4438. He saw freemasonry as a tool to reinforce the hierarchy within Lever Brothers.

  3. www.geograph.org.uk › photo › 7813720The Leverhulme Monument, Port Sunlight - Geograph Britain and ...

    4 days ago · Port Sunlight was built in the late 1880s by William Hesketh Lever (later Viscount Leverhulme) to expand his soap-making business, which was at that time based in Warrington. His company (Lever Brothers, now part of Unilever) bought the area of flat unused marshy land south of the River Mersey. It was large enough to allow space for expansion ...

  4. www.geograph.org.uk › photo › 7813600The eastern end of The Dell, Port... © David Smith cc-by-sa/2 ...

    4 days ago · Port Sunlight was built in the late 1880s by William Hesketh Lever (later Viscount Leverhulme) to expand his soap-making business, which was at that time based in Warrington. His company (Lever Brothers, now part of Unilever) bought the area of flat unused marshy land south of the River Mersey.

  5. www.geograph.org.uk › photo › 7813592The Bridge Inn, Port Sunlight © David Smith cc-by-sa/2.0 ...

    4 days ago · Port Sunlight was built in the late 1880s by William Hesketh Lever (later Viscount Leverhulme) to expand his soap-making business, which was at that time based in Warrington. His company (Lever Brothers, now part of Unilever) bought the area of flat unused marshy land south of the River Mersey.

  6. adam-yamey-writes.com › 2024/06/15 › an-almostAn almost hidden treasure on London’s Hampstead Heath

    Jun 15, 2024 · Between 1904 and 1925, the house was owned by William Lever, Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925). He was one of the first men to produce soap on an industrial scale (in 1884) and was an enlightened industrialist.

  7. archive.british-history.ac.uk › vch › lancsTownships: Little and Darcy Lever | British History Online

    Jun 18, 2024 · In 1276 Henry son of William de Lever (Parva) claimed the manor of Little Lever against Adam of the same, and messuages in Great Lever against Ellis de Lever; De Banco R. 13, m. 11. 12. In the Lever of Great Lever Chartulary (Add. MS. 32103) are some charters referring to the Little Lever family.