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
Leverhume in 1922
The New Frock by William Powell Frith, 1889. Lever used the image in his advertising campaigns
Cartoon from The Daily Mirror, 22 October 1906; a parody of William Lever, whose factory was named "Port Sunlight"
Abandoned house, Lewis
Port Sunlight
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Port Sunlight is a model village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is located between Lower Bebington and New Ferry, on the Wirral Peninsula. Port Sunlight was built by Le
William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
…works, and he later bought The New Frock by William Powell Frith to promote the Sunlight soap brand. In 1922 he founded the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight in Cheshire which he dedicated to his late wife Elizabeth. William Lever was born on 19 September 1851 at 16 Wood Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England…
An example of Port Sunlight village architecture
Lady Lever Art Gallery
The Bridge Inn
The war memorial by Goscombe John