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  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

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  4. 2 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. Jun 11, 2024 · William Hesketh Lever, later [1911] 1st baronet, [1917] 1st Baron Leverhulme and [1922] 1st Viscount Leverhulme: 19 Sep 1851: 7 May 1925: 73: 22 Jan 1910: Gershom Stewart [kt 1924] 30 Dec 1857: 5 Dec 1929: 71: 6 Dec 1923: Stephen Roxby Dodds: 29 Jan 1881: 10 Sep 1943: 62: 29 Oct 1924: John Grace: 16 Nov 1886: 8 Dec 1972: 86: 27 Oct 1931: George ...

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    1 day ago · William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, British industrialist, philanthropist and politician (b. 1851) Sir Doveton Sturdee, British admiral (b. 1859) May 10. Alexandru Marghiloman, 25th prime minister of Romania (b. 1854) William Massey, 19th prime minister of New Zealand (b. 1856) May 12. Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874)

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  8. 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.