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William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, lived from 19 September 1851 to 7 May 1925.
More usually referred to as Lord Leverhulme, he was an English industrialist, philanthropist and colonialist who, amongst many other ventures, for a time owned the whole of Lewis and Harris and had a profound and lasting influence on the island.
William Lever was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1851, and educated at the Bolton Church Institute. His working life started in his father's wholesale grocery business.
William lever 1st viscount leverhulme
In 1886, Lever established a soap manufacturing company called Lever Brothers (now part of Unilever) with his brother James. It was one of the first companies to manufacture soap from vegetable oils, and proved enormously successful.
From 1888, Lever began to put his philanthropic principles into practice through the construction of Port Sunlight on Merse