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    William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme FRGS FRIBA, (/ˈliːvə/, /ˈliːvəhjuːm/; 19 September 1851 – 7 May 1925) was an English industrialist, philanthropist...
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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...
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    Lever Brothers was a British manufacturing company founded in 1885 by two brothers: William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), and James...
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    traditional disciplines. Victorian businessman and entrepreneur William Hesketh Lever manufactured and marketed Sunlight soap. In order to produce cheap...
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    Viscount Leverhulme (category Lever family)
    Elizabeth Hulme. Sir William Hesketh Lever, 1st Baronet (1851–1925) (created Baron Leverhulme in 1917) William Hesketh Lever, 1st Baron Leverhulme (1851–1925)...
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  • occupied the Hall are reputed to have sold their share to William Hesketh Lever in 1900. Lever in turn agreed compensation for the majority of his freehold...
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    deteriorated further until in 1895 it was bought by industrialist William Hesketh Lever, who restored it and presented it to Bolton Council in 1900. Bolton's...
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  • York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.: 924–28. Retrieved 29 April 2012. William Hesketh Lever: Port Sunlight and Port Fishlight, Development Trust Association...
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    Sunlight (1888) in Cheshire was established by William Hesketh Lever (later Lord Leverhulme) of Lever Brothers – a soap and tallow manufacturer. The earlier...
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  • was a subsidiary of the soap manufacturing company Lever Brothers, created by William Hesketh Lever, which ran plantations in the Congo for the production...
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