Viscount Leverhulme
Viscount Leverhulme, of the Western Isles in the Counties of Inverness and Ross and Cromarty, was a title in the
County Palatine
of Lancaster, in 1917, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
His grandson, the third Viscount, was
Liverpool Veterinary School
is named after him. He had three daughters but no sons and on his death in 2000 the titles became extinct.
The hulme section of the title was in honour of the 1st Viscount's wife, Elizabeth Hulme.
Lever baronets, of Thornton Manor (1911)
- Sir William Hesketh Lever, 1st Baronet (1851–1925) (created Baron Leverhulme in 1917)
Barons Leverhulme (1917)
- William Hesketh Lever, 1st Baron Leverhulme (1851–1925) (created Viscount Leverhulme in 1922)
Viscounts Leverhulme (1922)
- William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925)
- William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme (1888–1949)
- Philip William Bryce Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme (1915–2000)
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References
- ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1921. p. 557.
- Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. 160A, )
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]