His remuneration was "a shilling a week all found" which meant that his board and lodgings were provided, making the financial aspect of the contract more-or-less pocket money. Other tasks included various practical assignments more to do with the fundamentals of the wholesale grocery trade, almost certainly designed to prepare the youth for management in later years. In the celebrated Victorian manner, the boss's son was, initially at least, shown no preferential treatment, being required to sweep the floor and tidy up before the staff arrived.
By then, the Lever family had moved from Wood Street to a larger house adjacent to the grocery business. His father, however, had other, somewhat less erudite plans for his eldest son and thus, not long after his fifteenth birthday, he started work in the family grocery business. His mother wanted him to enter the learned professions, ostensibly medicine, and William himself was very interested in becoming an architect. Not a particularly bright scholar, he was nevertheless keen to acquire academic learning. At the age of nine he was sent to another of Bolton's private schools before finishing his formal education at Bolton Church Institute from 1864 to 1867. From age six to age nine William attended a small private school run by the Misses Aspinwall in a house on Wood Street, not far from the Lever family home. He was the eldest son and the seventh child born to James Lever (1809–1897), a grocer, and Eliza Hesketh, daughter of a cotton mill manager. William Lever was born on 19 September 1851 at 16 Wood Street, Bolton, Lancashire, England.
In 1922 he founded the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight in Cheshire which he dedicated to his late wife Elizabeth. Lever's response was to acquire similarly illustrative works, and he later bought The New Frock by William Powell Frith to promote the Sunlight soap brand. Lever's rival in the soap industry, A & F Pears, had taken the lead in using art for marketing by buying paintings such as Bubbles by John Everett Millais to promote its products. Īn aspiring patron of the arts, Lever began collecting artworks in 1893 when he bought a painting by Edmund Leighton. His firm had become associated with activities in the Belgian Congo by 1911. He was an advocate for expansion of the British Empire, particularly in Africa and Asia, which supplied palm oil, a key ingredient in Lever's product line. In politics, Lever briefly sat as a Liberal MP for Wirral and later, as Lord Leverhulme, in the House of Lords as a Peer. In 1886, together with his brother, James, he established Lever Brothers, which was one of the first companies to manufacture soap from vegetable oils, and which is now part of the British multinational Unilever.
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Following an apprenticeship and a series of appointments in the family business, which he successfully expanded, he began manufacturing Sunlight Soap, building a substantial business empire with many well-known brands such as Lux and Lifebuoy. 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. William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme FRGS FRIBA, ( / ˈ l iː v ə/, / ˈ l iː v ə h juː m/ 19 September 1851 – ) was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician.
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