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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.
2 days ago · Join Tour Guide John McFerran on a walking tour of Port Sunlight, the model village created by William Lever and built by over thirty different architects in a range of styles to accommodate workers at the soap factory.
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1 day ago · The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the government of the United Kingdom . Pat McFadden has been chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since 5 July 2024.
4 days ago · His name stands first in the list of those commissioned to farm the Irish Revenues from 1669 to 1675; he had ten colleagues, of whom six were at some time or other elected Aldermen of London, viz. : William Bucknall (1667), William Dashwood (1667), Philip Jemmett (1667), John Breedon (1667), James Hayes (1664), and his brother Dannet Forth (1669).
22 hours ago · In 1329 William de Lever leased to Adam for life the mill of Great Lever, but William was to have his corn ground free of multure and to be hopper free; Lever Chartul. no. 89. Agnes widow of John son of William de Lever recovered dower in a mill in Middleton in July 1352 against John [de Lever] son of Agnes de Hulton; Duchy of Lane.
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4 days ago · William James, &c. conveyed to William de la Pole, Marquis of Suffolk, and Alice his wife, this manor of Claxton, with that of Kerdeston, &c. so that Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Kerdeston, was deprived of her inheritance.
