William Hort Levin (1845 – 1893) was a 19th century New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 politician and businessman in Wellington, New Zealand.

He represented two Wellington electorates, first the Wellington electorate from 1879 to 1881, and then the Thorndon electorate from 1881 to 1884, when he resigned due to ill-health.

He ran the company Levin and Co in Wellington founded by his father Nathaniel William Levin (1819 – 1903), and was one of the directors of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company. The town of Levin

Levin, New Zealand

Levin is a town in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand, and is the largest town in the Horowhenua district. It is 90 kilometres north of Wellington, 50 kilometres south of Palmerston North, and two kilometres to the east of Lake Horowhenua....

was named after him. He served on the Wellington City Council and the Wellington Harbour Board, and was known for his public benefactions.