Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton
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Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton was an English industrialist from Leeds, Yorkshire.
Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton, by John Lavery, 1922
Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton. Portrait sketch by John A M Hay, 1923
Advertisement for Watson's Matchless Cleanser soap, advertised in 1910 as "the most popular soap in Great Britain" Illustration by Howard Davie, August 1898. Other brands of Joseph Watson & Co Ltd were Sparkla polishing soap, Nubolic disinfectant soap, Venus toilet soap and Bumpo soap powder.
Cartoon in The Daily Mirror, 22 October 1906: a parody of William Lever, whose factory was named "Port Sunlight"
Lever Brothers
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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 Darcy Lever (1854–1916). They invested in and successfully promoted a new soap-making process invented by chemist William Hough Watson. Lever Brothers entered the United States market in 1895 and acquired Mac Fisheries, owner of T. Wall & Sons, in 1925. Lever Brothers was one of several British companies that took an interest in the welfare of its British employees. Its brands included Lifebuoy, Lux and Vim. Lever Brothers merged with Margarine Unie to form Unilever in 1929.
Lever House in Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, the former headquarters of Lever Brothers