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William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme

English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician (1851-1925)

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About William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme

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. Following an apprenticeship and a series of appointments in the family business, which he successfully expanded, he began manufacturing Sunlight Soap, building a substantial business empire with many well-known brands such as Lux and Lifebuoy. In 1886, together with his brother, James, he established Lever Brothers, which was one of the first companies to manufacture soap from vegetable oils, and which is now part of the British multinational Unilever. In politics, Lever briefly sat as a Liberal MP for Wirral and later, as Lord Leverhulme, in the House of Lords as a peer. He was an advocate for expansion of the British Empire, particularly in Africa and Asia, which supplied palm oil, a key ingredient in Lever's product line. His firm had become associated with activities in the Belgian Congo by 1911.

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Occupation: politician, businessperson, philanthropist, soap maker
Position held: member of the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom, High Sheriff of Lancashire, member of the House of Lords, Mayor of Bolton
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born: September 19, 1851
Died: May 7, 1925

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