[53], Vertical Integration was apparently one of Leverhulme's main strategies for the island fisheries venture, and to this end he acquired retail fishmonger's shops in most of the UK's larger towns and cities: all were modernised and refitted and their previous proprietors were installed as managers. The visit by Jane Heber-Percy and Susan Pakenham, daughters of the third and last Lord Leverhulme, was the highlight of a week-long festival in Port Sunlight. [10][59][55], Suffragette Edith Rigby claimed to have set fire to Leverhulme's bungalow at Rivington on 7 July 1913, although it is suspected her confession was false. local brewery owner. He was invited to contest elections for the Liberal Party. In 1915 Lever acquired a painting entitled Suspense by Charles Burton Barber (an artist who came to resent 'manufacturing pictures for the market'). Having been educated at a small private school until the age of nine, then at church schools until he was fifteen; a somewhat privileged education for that time, he started work at his father's wholesale grocery business in Bolton. Simon Schama, A History of Britain. and two juniors, acted for Associated Newspapers Ltd. Created 1905-25 by Thomas Mawson for Lord Leverhulme Few gardens give the sense of wonder and elation offered by Rivington Terraced Gardens. The Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 had empowered the Scottish Secretary, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, to acquire certain farms in the Highlands and Islands by compulsory purchase and to have them divided up to provide more crofts. [56], In 1888, shortly after the birth of William, his only surviving child, Lever first rented then bought Thornton Manor in Thornton Hough in the Wirral, Cheshire. They also stated that, on behalf of their clients that they wished to retract completely "every imputation made upon Mr Lever's honour and integrity" and express their deepest regrets for having made such malicious attacks upon him. By then, the Lever family had moved from Wood Street to a larger house adjacent to the grocery business. as a public park, personally supervising and funding its landscaping and In this definitive, meticulously researched history, Jules Marchal exposes the nature of forced labour under Lord Leverhulme's rule and the appalling conditions imposed upon the people of Congo. Leverhulme's participation in this system of formalised labour has been documented by Jules Marchal, who contends that, "Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labour, a program that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted for more deaths than the Nazi holocaust". Lever had been justice of the peace for Cheshire, he was also High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1917. In 1936, William, 2nd Lord Leverhulme, paid for many improvements to the church, including widening the chancel and providing choir stalls, a communion table and a pulpit. An admirable work of An interesting feature of the room is the ornate stone fireplace [47] By 1923, a Lever soap factory was built there, and by 1924 SAVCO (Savonneries Congolaises) was established. In accordance with nonconformist tenets, the Lever family held frequent bible readings at home, and were regular worshipers at the local chapel. His grandfather William Hesketh Lever had founded Lever Brothers in the 1880s, primarily producing household soap such as Sunlight and Lux. In 1887, Lever purchased a large tract of Death: July 24, 1913 (61-62) Thornton Manor, Thornton Hough, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom. [3] He married Winifred Agnes Lloyd, daughter of Lt. Col. J. E. Lloyd, on 20 January 1937. In reality, workers' social lives were policed from the head office, and some of Lever's employees clearly resented his paternalism. Along with brother James, he founded Lever In response to civil unrest by the Congolese, the company "demanded more troops, more police and more brutality. 'Savonneries Helvetia' was the inspiration of the somewhat charismatic Franois-Henri Lavanchy-Clarke, Lever's District Agent in Switzerland who used the fledgling cinema industry as an advertising tool. researching the dovecotes at Glessner House recently, we stumbled across an For women and girls, special classes are offered in cooking, dressmaking and shorthand. //-->