Lever history
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Lord Leverhulme (William Hesketh Lever)
Mayor of Bolton:1918-19
Born: 16 Wood Street, Bolton 19 September 1851
Died: Hampstead, London 7 May 1925
Educated: The Misses Aspinwall's Private School, Bolton; Kay's Private School; Bolton Church Institute
Soap magnate, art collector and generous benefactor of his home town.
Son of Bolton grocer, James Lever, he was the founder of Lever Brothers and Sunlight Soap - later to become the Unilever business empire.
He was made Freeman of County Borough of Bolton on 10 November 1902.
He was Knighted on 6 July 1911 and was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1917.
Created Baron Leverhulme of Bolton-le-Moors on 21 June 1917 and Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles on 27 November 1922.
In 1913 he re-endowed Bolton Grammar School and Bolton High School for Girls forming in 1915 what is now Bolton School.
His house at Westbourne, Chorley New Road, coupled with the purchase of adjoining properties provided the land and some
