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William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
English industrialist
For his son, see William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme.
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount LeverhulmeFRGS FRIBA[1] (; 19 September 1851 – 7 May 1925) 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 LiberalMP for Wirral and later, as Lord Lev
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William Hesketh Lever, first Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925)
W H Lever was a successful soap manufacturer who founded the model industrial village of Port Sunlight, one of the most significant of its kind in Europe. He grew up in Bolton and entered his father’s grocery business at the age of 16, becoming a partner in 1872.
He and his brother, James Darcy Lever (1854-1916) began to trade on their own account, selling soap to which he applied the brand name ‘Sunlight’ in 1884. The following year the brothers began to manufacture their own soap, and in 1888 he established a new factory near the River Mersey in the Wirral Peninsula, which, with the village that he built around it, he called Port Sunlight. Four hundred houses in the Garden City style had been built by 1900, and ultimately the village consisted of more than a thousand dwellings. The factory and the first houses were designed by a local architect William Owen, but subsequently architects with national reputations, such
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William Compton (courtier)
English soldier and courtier (1482–1528)
For other people with the same name, see William Compton.
Sir William Compton (c. 1482 – 30 June 1528) was a soldier and one of the most prominent courtiers during the reign of Henry VIII of England.
Family and early life
[edit]Compton was born around 1482, the only son and heir of Edmund Compton (d. 21 April 1493) of Compton, Warwickshire and Joan, the daughter of Walter Aylworth. He was around eleven years of age when his father died in 1493, at which time he became a ward of Henry VII, who appointed him page to Prince Henry, Duke of York. He was about nine years older than Henry, but the two became close friends.
Marriage and issue
[edit]He married firstly, before 10 May 1512,[4] Werburga, the daughter of Sir John Brereton and Katherine Berkeley, and widow of Sir Francis Cheyney. They had at least one son and two daughters, including:[5]
He married secondly, after 8 M