Viscount Leverhulme, of the Western Isles in the Counties of Inverness and Ross and Cromarty, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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 created in 1922 for the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Baron Leverhulme

William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme

William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician....

. He was created a baronet in 1911 and elevated to Baron Leverhulme of Bolton-le-Moors in the County Palatine of Lancaster in 1917.

His grandson, the 3rd Viscount, was Lord-Lieutenant of Cheshire between 1949 and 1990 and Chancellor of the University of Liverpool

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 from 1980 until 1993. The Philip Leverhulme Equine Hospital at Liverpool Veterinary School

University of Liverpool Faculty of Veterinary Science

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 is named after him. He had three daughters but no sons and on his death in 2000 the title became extinct.

The hulme section of the title was in honour of the 1st Viscount's wife, Elizabeth Hulme.

Viscounts Leverhulme (1922)

• William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
  William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
  William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician....
  
   (1851-1925)
• William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme
  William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme
  William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme, DL was the son of William Hesketh Lever and Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of Crompton Hulme of Bolton....
  
   (1888-1949)
• Philip William Bryce Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme
  Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme
  Philip William Bryce Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, KG was a British peer.Lever was the only son of William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme and his first wife, Marion. In 1949 he inherited his father's titles and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire that year, a post he held until 1990...
  
  (1915-2000)