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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.
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles, Baron Leverhulme of Bolton-le-Moors. ... (Show more) born: September 19, 1851, Bolton, Lancashire, England. died: May 7, 1925, Hampstead, London (aged 73) Founder: Unilever PLC.
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.
William Hesketh Lever, later to become the first Viscount Leverhulme was born in Bolton in 1851. The son of a grocer and one of ten children, he joined his father’s business as an apprentice at the age of fifteen.
Lever, William Hesketh, 1st Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles (1851–1925). Lever was born in Bolton (Lancs.). A congregationalist, he believed in self-help and free trade. He began work as a grocer. He later established a soap factory and expanded by purchasing firms in the same trade.
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Educated at a small private school until the age of nine, then at church schools, he joined his father's wholesale grocery business in Bolton at the age of fifteen.
