William Rising

William Rising or William Hesketh Rising , (September 19th 1851 - May 7th 1925), was a British industrialist who was named 1st Viscount of Leverhulme. It is known in the Anglo-Saxon world under the name of Lord Leverhulme .

William Lever was born with Bolton, the Lancashire in 1851, and studied in Bolton Church Institute. It founded in 1886 a soap factory with Warrington under the name of Lever Brothers with his James brother. It was one of the first companies to produce soap starting from plant oil, which ensured the development of the group. He died in 1925. He was " High Sheriff of Lancaster" in 1917, and was member of the Parliament for the area of Wirral between 1906 and 1909.

In Belgium and in the colony of Congo

William Lever is known in the French-speaking world for her activities of oil mill in Belgium and with the Belgian Congo. Those will give principal rise to the industrial activities of William Lever. After the fusion of the company with the Dutch group Plain Margarine in 1930, they will take a world dimension under the name of Unilever.

The first relationship with the Belgium goes back to 1888. William Lever founds S.A. Savonneries Rising Brothers in 1900, and a factory is created with Forest close to Brussels in 1905. It will profit with the Belgian Congo from important favors on behalf of government, this one wishing with the faith to hold its market with its nationals while saving appearances. William Lever will be the only foreign contractor of importance to being able to exploit the territory of Belgian Congo. In 1911, it founds the company of the Huileries of Congo and Leverville (currently Lusanga), in the center of 75.000 hectares natural palm plantations in the area of current the Kikwit, charged to provide the raw material for the soap. Those will be at the origin of the exceptional development of the activities of William Lever in Congo.

In the United Kingdom

Lord Leverhulme is known with the the United Kingdom like philanthropist. He created for his new factory the industrial town models Port Sunlight lamp in 1889 close to Liverpool, which lodges the art gallery Lady Rising Art Gallery. He is at the origin of the tropical medical school of the Université of Liverpool. He made gift of the Lancaster House of London to the country, and created the Leverhulme Trust. The gardens of its old London residence of Hill Garden with Hampstead are opened with the public. It bought the island of Lewis in 1918, with the ambition to make Stornoway an industrial town with a factory of setting out of fish preserve, badly accommodated by the inhabitants. It returned to them the property of the island in 1923.

It was named Baron de Leverhulme on June 21st 1917 and Vicompte de Leverhulme on November 27th 1922. Its quality of Viscount passed to his son William Hulme Lever in 1925, and died out after the death of the 3rd Viscount, Philip William Bryce Lever, in 2000.

See too

Internal bonds

Leverville
Unilever

External bonds

William Rising in Belgium and in Congo

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