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	Sotheby's - Services & Information - Investor Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Leverhulme’s enthusiasm for marquetry led him to purchase a pair of George III gilt satinwood side tables, now estimated at £80,000-120,000, and an important suite of 12 George II walnut and marquetry inlaid chairs, noted for their striking boot-shaped feet are estimated at £200,000-300,000.
		Lord Leverhulme’s interest in travel was driven by a strong desire for personal development and the furthering of his business interests.
		Lord Leverhulme’s childhood dream was to be an architect and while that was never to come to reality, he took delight in taking personal control of all manner of building projects throughout his life.
	www.shareholder.com /bid/news/20010518-42238.cfm (2535 words)

	William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Lever,_1st_Viscount_Leverhulme (1051 words)

	Stornoway Historical Society
		Leverhulme had ambitious plans for Stornoway and commissioned the artist Raffles Davison to draw up his future vision of the town.
		In 1923 Lord Leverhulme gifted Lews Castle and 64,000 acres of land to the people of Stornoway parish and the Stornoway Trust was established to manage this substantial estate on behalf of the community.
		Lord Leverhulme's gift to the community in 1923 specified that Lews Castle should be used for civic purposes and as the official residence of the Provost of Stornoway.
	www.stornowayhistoricalsociety.org.uk /features/castle (874 words)

	Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		But insread of living in Rivington Hall, which was the manorial seat, he had a sectional wooden bungalow erected near to his favourite spot on the moorland where he spent many hours during his courtship with his wife Elizabeth Ellen Hulme.
		Lord Leverhulme died on the 7th May 1925 but right up to that time he was involved in setting up Rivington as a tourist spot.
		Lord Leverhulme was made Mayor of Bolton in 1919.
	www.lan-opc.org.uk /Rivington/leverhulme.html (302 words)

	Lord Leverhulme
		Lord Leverhulme loved his work and his wife, who was called 'Lady Lever'.
		Leverhulme was forced to summon a special meeting of crofters at Obbe, in 15 August 1919.
		Leverhulme put these five points to the meeting three times over, and each time they were translated into Gaelic.
	www.virtualhebrides.com /leverburgh/history/leverhulme.htm (271 words)

	The Leverhulme Trust - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		His achievements were recognised in 1922 when the title of Lord Leverhulme of the Western Isles was conferred upon him.
		On his death in 1925, Lord Leverhulme left a proportion of his interest in the company he had founded, Lever Brothers, in trust for specific beneficiaries: to include first certain trade charities and secondly the provision of "scholarships for the purposes of research and education".
		The Trust is therefore led by a group of colleagues with wide but self-consistent experience, with a high level of mutual understanding and respect built up over many years, and with a full recognition of the special qualities and achievement of the founder.
	www.leverhulme.ac.uk /about/history (367 words)

	Sotheby's - Services & Information - Investor Relations
		A bronze and ivory figure of a female diver by Ferdinand Preiss, presented to Lord Leverhulme to commemorate his opening of New Brighton Bathing Pool and Promenade in 1934, was estimated at £6,000-8,000.
		The 1st Lord Leverhulme was an inveterate architect and his wife could not recall a time when builders were not at work on the house.
		It emerged today that, with funding from a Leverhulme Family Charitable Trust, the National Art Collections Fund and London fine art agent Robert Holden Ltd., five items were acquired in the sale by the Lady Lever Art Gallery, built by the 1st Lord Leverhulme as a tribute to his late wife.
	www.shareholder.com /bid/news/20010628-45517.cfm (819 words)

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		Lord Kitchener was opposed to the idea, which seemed to him irregular, unnecessary, and expensive, involving a waste of transport, rations, and clerks' labour.
		Lord Robert Cecil need not adopt the tricks of a mountebank to achieve leadership of the British nation, but he must contract so entire a faith in the sacred character of his mission that all the inhibiting diffidencies of his modest nature will henceforth seem to him like the whisperings of temptation.
		Lord Northcliffe, with all his faults, is a man to whom statesmen may speak their minds without loss of influence, but there are other newspaper proprietors, financiers of commercialized journalism, with whom a man of Mr.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/3/0/15306/15306-8.txt (18954 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Crofters plot course for island windfall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		It was in 1919 that Lord Leverhulme acquired the 700 square-mile estate on Lewis and became landlord to its 30,000 residents.
		Leverhulme realised that improvements in the island’s infrastructure were crucial to his development plans for Lewis and consequently embarked on ambitious plans to develop the island’s economy via the processing and marketing of fish.
		Lord Leverhulme envisaged producing up to 120,000 tins of fish per week which he estimated would realise about £25,000 net profit per annum.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=330612003 (1717 words)

	West Highland Free Press Local Newspaper for the Isle of Skye and Western Isles in the Gaelic and English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The new laird of Lewis: Leverhulme in 1919
		The island's economy was already umbilically tied to fishing, and as the historian Arthur Geddes - who worked for Lord Leverhulme as a young man - later observed the value of the island cure of white fish had fallen dramatically from £100,000 per annum in 1900 to one-tenth of that amount, £10,000, in 1913.
		Leverhulme's refusal to grasp the non-negotiable nature of that expectation was monumental.
	www.whfp.com /1649/top2.html (1227 words)

	The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		At first you feel sympathy for Leverhulme's aspirations for improving people's lives before realising that he was virtually ignorant in respect of the ordinary crofter's traditional way of life and the lack of progress on land reform in the years immediately prior to his proprietorship.
		The story of the soap magnate, Lord Leverhulme, and his encounter with the crofters of Lewis and Harris is a lovely example of a (nearly) unstoppable force meeting an immoveable object.
		The former, Leverhulme, embodies the Victorian ideal of Progress while the latter is the islanders' determination to hold on to an ancientfcommmunal culture, largely indifferent to material betterment.
	www.hostmatrix.org /Books/isbn1841581844.html (320 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Architectural Heritage - Scotland - Western Scotland - Opium, Soap and Big Plans for Lewis. - Article ...
		Leverhulme was a highly-thought-of philanthropist, who had been praised for his working model village of Port Sunlight near Liverpool.
		The failure of the two sides to settle the land problem led to Leverhulme abandoning his plans for Lewis and turning his attention further south, to Harris, where he was more readily received.
		Leverhulme only twice returned to Lews Castle after this, the last time being in September 1924 to open the Lewis War Memorial.
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/heritage/scotland/western/article_3.shtml (485 words)

	North Tolsta Historical Society - Ness - Tolsta road
		Sadly, though, Lord Leverhulme became disillusioned and he eventually turned his back on the island because of a combination of factors.
		These were a slump in the business world in the spring of 1920, a £2 million overdraft undetected due to an unbelievable oversight in the accounts of the Niger Company owned by Lever Brothers, the land raids and to resistance and obstacles placed in his way by the then Scottish Secretary.
		When Lord Leverhulme abandoned his plans the Scottish Office, in an attempt to alleviate the intense poverty and hardship then prevailing and also, perhaps, out of remorse, gave £35,000, a vast sum in those days, to continue with road building works.
	www.tolsta.info /ness_tolsta_road.htm (1386 words)

	Lady Lever Art Gallery Collections
		Leverhulme acquired many of the pieces in the gallery through the bulk purchase of others' collections.
		He also bought the 1st Lord Tweedmouth's distinguished collection of Wedgwood, a large collection of Greek vases and Roman sculpture originally assembled by the influential Regency writer and designer Thomas Hope, and in 1913 the entire paintings collection of the wealthy mine owner George McCulloch.
		Leverhulme felt he needed a purpose-built gallery to display the many imposing works he now owned.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /ladylever/collections (215 words)

	Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
		Lord Leverhulme contributed upwards of £2 million to industrial ventures, largely based on fishing, which he believed would transform the economy of Lewis and Harris.
		It was Lord Leverhulme who introduced the Castle to modern amenities including electric lighting, central heating and intercom telephones.
		In 1923 Leverhulme gifted 64,000 acres of land to the people of Stornoway parish, and a democratically elected body, the Stornoway Trust, was established to administer the estate.
	www.w-isles.gov.uk /press/archive/030710.htm (1403 words)

	Highland Land Seizures
		Of course, when the government required strong and fearless Highlanders to die for English landlords like the Duke of Northumberland or capitalists like Lord Leverhulme, promises of land were made to the fisher-crofters, as an earthly paradise was promised the empire’s wage-slaves, and a measure of self- government to Ireland and India.
		I found that Lord Leverhulme had succeeded in embittering Stornoway wage-slaves, working out his schemes, against the “raiders” at Coll and Gress by stopping work on roads at the proposed harbour extension from the existing harbour round to Goat Island.
		Leverhulme has insisted that he requires Coll and Gress Farms as part of his scheme for dairy farming purposes to supply milk to Stornoway.
	www.marxists.org /archive/maclean/works/1920-highland.htm (919 words)

	Hebrides 2001
		By that time, William Lever, who was made Lord Leverhulme earlier in 1917, was a multi-millionaire, head of the Lever Brothers soap empire, builder of Port Sunlight, endower of Bolton School, owner of Rivington and much more both in Britain and overseas.
		Leverhulme went on to buy neighbouring Harris and other Islands but his Hebridean ventures were not successful and all the properties were disposed of after his death in 1925.
		When he stayed on Harris, Leverhulme lived in Borve Lodge, a large elegant house on the western seaboard, set amid the fertile sandy land known locally as machair.
	www.w-isles.gov.uk /hebrides2001/index.htm (3794 words)

	Rivington
		Lord Lever-Hulme was approached in 1899 by the owners of Rivington Hall who held a share in the lands.
		Lord Lever-Hulme is well respected and remembered because he cared for the people in his town.
		The 1/8 moiety of the title Lord of the Manor of Rivington is held by a descendant.
	www.angelfire.com /in/rivington (12229 words)

	Royal Commission on Decimal Coinage: report of His Majesty's Commissioners appointed to consider whether it is ...
		In a Reservation Lord Ashton and Godfrey express unwillingness to reject the possibility of a future exchange, which to be practicable would have to retain the penny.
		Proposals are made for facilitating the transition from the penny to the mill; the difficulties in accustoming the public to the change are more apparent than real and the support for a decimal coinage has been increasing.
		- Lord Leverhulme, Hayhurst and Smith, while agreeing with the argument in favour of a decimal currency expressed in the First Minority Report, advocate the halfpenny as the basis, one hundred to be equal to a new currency unit to be called the Royal.
	www.bopcris.ac.uk /bopall/ref7833.html (436 words)

	HLL - Brands - Enablers - Nationwide Manufacturing
		Lord Leverhulme, the legendary founder of Lever Brothers, was visiting India.
		Lord Leverhulme, who believed that what is good for a country is equally good for the company, responded to that aspiration because he too shared that dream.
		In September 1934, after more than a decade of discussions in London and in India, a Lever factory was allowed to sprout on the land that had been reclaimed by the Bombay Port Trust at Sewri.
	www.hll.com /brands/nationwide.asp (413 words)

	Physics Today December 2001
		Thirteen young scholars who work in physics-related fields received Philip Leverhulme Prizes, which were awarded by the Leverhulme Trust, located in London, for the first time this past July.
		The prizes go to academics in the UK to recognize the research achievement, distinction, and promise of outstanding scholars usually younger than age 36 in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics, the classics, Earth sciences, economics, engineering, geography, and philosophy and ethics.
		The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the will of the first Lord Leverhulme, who, in the late 19th century, as William Hesketh Lever, had established Lever Brothers, a company known for its manufacture and sale of soap.
	www.physicstoday.org /pt/vol-54/iss-12/p70a.html (448 words)

	Stornoway Castle, Scotland
		Stornoway Castle dates from the middle of the 19th C and was once the home of Lord Leverhulme the founder of one of Britain's biggest soap manufacturers (now Unilever).
		The idea was to transport fresh fish by road and rail to Harris where it could be processed for sale in the main Scottish centers of population.
		However, Lord Leverhulme's innovative project was not welcomed by the locals and in 1923 he was forced to abandon the scheme.
	www.planetware.com /stornoway/stornoway-castle-gb-wsti-stcast.htm (160 words)

	Insights - Articles - Effective Communication of Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		One of my first tasks after University was to write an account of Lord Leverhulme’s development of the Port Sunlight village — an extraordinary CSR initiative for the first years of the last century although of course it was not described as such.
		Lord Leverhulme however saw very clearly that as a Capitalist bringing products to a mass market and creating enormous wealth he had also an obligation to the welfare of all those who worked for him - thus the village with its high quality housing, its schools, its library.
		Leverhulme, Rowntree and Cadbury believed what they were doing was right but they also knew that their initiatives to help their workforce benefited their business.
	www.burson-marsteller.com /pages/insights/pubs/articles/as-07-15-2004 (4047 words)

	'Lord Leverhulme', Augustus John
		This portrait of William Hesketh Lever, first Viscount Leverhulme and builder of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, was painted by Augustus John in 1920.
		The two parts were rejoined in 1954 at the instigation of the 2nd Lord Leverhulme and at the cost of the artist, who did not seem to bear any lasting grudge.
		An extended study of 'Lord Levehulme' is available online as part of our 'Artwork of the month' series.
	www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk /ladylever/collections/lordleverhulme.asp (183 words)

	The Clay Roof Tile Council - Why Use Clay Roof Tiles?
		The apartment block is named after the late Philip Leverhulme, the first grandson of the famous Lord Leverhulme, founder of the soap detergent empire now known as Lever Brothers.
		Philip Leverhulme Lodge was designed by Paddock Johnson Associates (PJA), a local architectural practice which is based in the village and as such is mindful of the historical and environmental context in which their designs would be set.
		The new Philip Leverhulme Lodge in part reflects an arts and crafts style with many interesting and unusual design features including octagonal towers, brick corbelling, large gallows brackets, fl wood boarding and leaded light glazing.
	www.clayroof.co.uk /news/wnew_pr_details.cfm?PRID=66 (752 words)

	Culture Hebrides - Island holidays in the Gaelic Heartland of Scotland
		Nigel Nicolson (1960) gives a fair account of Leverhulme and his plans, and how these were perceived in Lewis and in Harris.
		Leah Leneman (1989) includes the Leverhulme story as part of her wider description of land struggle and raids following World War I. Since this took place in the modern period there are contemporary accounts of some of the events.
		Leverhulme soon became one of the icons of Lewis & Harris history; he touches many aspects of life in these islands and his name crops up in discussions on fisheries, Stornoway's town plan, whaling in Harris, and 'the bridge that leads no-where' in Tolsta: not a bad epitaph for his stay in the Hebrides.
	www.culturehebrides.com /heritage/lever (601 words)

	Two Chairs - By Alexander Chancellor - Slate Magazine
		But in 1920 Lord Ebury held on to the suite when he sold the house to the first Lord Leverhulme.
		Three years after that Ebury split the suite up, selling Leverhulme two sofas and two chairs and retaining four chairs and two stools for himself.
		They sold for a total of £97.39s.18d, which was hardly an improvement on their original price in 1764 (but in 1764 there wasn't a world war going on).
	www.slate.com /id/2508/sidebar/51322 (270 words)

	Lord Leverhulme honour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Lord Leverhulme (left) with Sir Michael Parry, President, LSTM.
		Appropriately, the presentation took place at the first of the School's Leverhulme Lectures, 'The new genetics in the study of organisms important to humans: a progress report on interactions between mosquitoes and malaria parasites', delivered by Professor Fotis Kafatos, Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory at Heidelberg.
		Held initially as part of the School's Centenar y celebrations, the Leverhulme Lectures will become an annual event and Professor Kafatos, a former Harvard Professor, is the first of many experts to speak in Liverpool.
	www.merseyworld.com /precinct/Mar98/prec5.html (122 words)

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