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Lord Leverhulme was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1851. In 1886 he established a soap manufacturing company called Lever Brothers (now part of Unilever) with his brother James, which was one of the first companies to manufacture soap from vegetable oils and produced a great fortune. He died in 1925.

Lord Leverhulme is best remembered as a philanthropist. He created the model industrial town of Port Sunlight near Liverpool, which is the home of the Lady Lever Art Gallery; endowed a school of tropical medicine at Liverpool University; gifted Lancaster House in London to the British nation; and endowed the Leverhulme Trust. The garden of his former London residence Hill Garden in Hampstead, is open to the public.

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William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1051 words)
	Lord Leverhulme is the most familiar name of William Hesketh Lever, (19 September 1851 – 7 May 1925), an English Industrialist, philanthropist and colonialist who was created 1st Viscount Leverhulme.
	William Lever was born in Bolton, Lancashire in 1851, and educated at the Bolton Church Institute.
	The Leverhulme viscountcy passed to his son William Hulme Lever in 1925, and became extinct on the death of the third viscount, Philip William Bryce Lever, in 2000.

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