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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 built Britain’s largest company and in so doing, made the first modern multinational. And unlike the US Robber Barons, for Lord Leverhulme his British workers' welfare was as important as his wealth. But this didn't extend to his African workers, with fatal consequences.
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 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.
Jul 11, 2000 · William Lever became Baron Leverhulme in 1917, during Lloyd George's peerage-selling period, and Viscount Leverhulme in 1922. His son, the second viscount, showed a filial interest in the...
William Hulme, Second Viscount Leverhulme, was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 25 March 1888, a son of William Hesketh Lever, the founder of the soap making business of Lever Brothers Ltd; his birth interestingly coinciding with the first stages in the construction of the works at Port Sunlight.
Jun 16, 2013 · His peers knew him as William Lever, later to become first Viscount Leverhulme. When he was made a Baronet in 1911 he chose the motto Mutare Vel Timere Sperno: “I spurn to change or fear.”
