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Leverhulme, Viscount (UK, 1922 - 2000)

Creation: let. pat. 27 Nov 1922

Extinct: 4 Jul 2000

Family name: Lever

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Arms:

Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Per pale Argent and barry of eight Or and Azure two Bendlets Sable the upper one engrailed;  2nd and 3rd, Per chevron Or and Gules in chief two Chaplets of Roses and in base a Lion's Head all counterchanged

Crest:

A Trumpet fesswise thereon a Cock proper charged on the breast with a Rose as in the Arms

Supporters:

On either side an Elephant Or the dexter charged on the shoulder with a Rose Gules and the sinister with a Chaplet of Roses also Gules

Motto:

Mutare Vel Temere Sperno (I scorn to change or fear)

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William Hesketh [Lever], 1st Baron Leverhulme later 1st Viscount Leverhulme

1st son of James Lever, of Great Bolton, co. Lancaster, by his wife Eliza Hesketh, dau. of William Hesketh, of Manchester, co. Lancaster

born

19 Sep 1851

mar.

15 Apr 1874 Elizabeth Ellen Hulme (d. 24 Jul 1913), dau. of Crompton Hulme, of Bolton, co. Lancaster

only child

1. Hon William Hulme Lever, later 2nd Viscount Leverhulme

died

7 May 1925

created

6 Jul 1911 Baronet of the United Kingdom, styled "of Thornton Manor"

21 Jun 1917 Baron Leverhulme, of Bolton-le-Moors in the County Palatine of Lancaster

27 Nov 1922 Viscount Leverhulme, of the Western Isles in the Counties of Inverness and Ross & Cromarty

suc. by

son

note

grocer 1867-86, soap manufacturer from 1886; founder of Port Sunlight and Chairman of Lever Brothers plc; Member of Parliament (Liberal) for Wirral 1906-10; High Sheriff of Lancashire 1917; Mayor of Bolton 1918-19; Junior Warden, Grand lodge of England 1918

William Hulme [Lever], 2nd Viscount Leverhulme

born

25 Mar 1888

mar. (1)

24 Apr 1912 (div. 1936) Marion Beatrice Smith (mar. (2) 1937 W/Cdr Selden Herbert Lord DSO MC;  d. 1987), yst. dau. of Bryce Smith, of Whalley and Manchester, co. Lancaster

children by first wife

1. Hon Philip William Bryce Lever, later 3rd Viscount Leverhulme

1. Hon (Elizabeth) Ruth Lever JP (b. 9 Apr 1913; d. 16 Apr 1972)

2. Hon Rosemary Gertrude Alexandra Lever (b. 23 Apr 1919), mar. 19 Oct 1938 Lt Col William Erskine Stobart Whetherly, 1st son of Lt Col William Stobart Whetherly DSO, and has issue

mar. (2)

20 Jan 1937 Winifred Agnes Morris (former wife of Capt George Lee Morris RNVR;  d. 19 Feb 1966), 2nd dau. of Lt Col J E Lloyd, of Brentwood, Bidston, co. Chester

died

27 May 1949

suc. by

son by first wife

note

High Sheriff of Cheshire 1923

Philip William Bryce [Lever], 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, KG

born

1 Jul 1915

mar.

1 Jul 1937 Margaret Ann Moon (d. 1973), only child of John Moon, of Orange Grove, Littleton, Guildford, co. Surrey

children

1. Hon Susan Elizabeth Moon Lever (b. 5 May 1938; d. 7 Dec 2019), mar. 1 Jun 1957 (div. 1973) as his first wife (Hercules) Michael Roland Pakenham, of Old Hall, Penaley, Wrexham, co. Clwyd, 1st son of Maj Hercules Dermot Wilfrid Pakenham, by his wife Hetty Margaret Hebeler, dau. of Capt Roland Stuart Hebeler (Mr and Mrs Michael Pakenham had two adopted children)

2. Hon Victoria Marion Ann Lever, Extra Lady-in-Waiting to HRH the Princess Royal since 1974 (b. 23 Sep 1945), mar. (1) 27 Sep 1966 (div. 1973) Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Bt., (2) 3 Oct 1975 (Robert) Gordon Lennox O'Reilly Apsion, and (3) 1990 Brig Peter Tower, and has issue by her second husband

3. Hon (Margaret) Jane Lever (b. 22 Jun 1947), mar. 6 Jul 1966 Algernon Eustace Hugh Heber-Percy, of Hodnet Hall, Market Drayton, co. Shropshire, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire from 1996 (b. 2 Jan 1944), and has issue

died

s.p.m. 4 Jul 2000

note

Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire 1949-90 ; Chancellor of the University of Liverpool 1980-93; Knight of the Garter 1988

On the death of the 3rd Viscount Leverhulme the Barony and Viscountcy of Leverhulme and the Baronetcy of Thornton Manor all became extinct.

Last updated 13 Apr 2020 

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