Biography of William Lever 1st Viscount Leverhulme 1851-1925

The London Gazette 28566. Whitehall, December 28, 1911. Letters Patent have passed the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the creation of the undermentioned Baronets:

Sir William Thornley Stoker, Baronet, of Hatch-street, in the city of Dublin, Doctor of Medicine, Master of Surgery (Honoris Causa), Fellow of the Royal Col lege of Surgeons in Ireland, and some time President of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland;

Sir Robert Anderson, Baronet, of Park mount, in the county of the city of Bel fast, and of Mullaghmore, in the county of Monaghan;

Sir Charles Bent Ball, Baronet, of Merrion Square, in the city of Dublin, and of Killybegs, in the county of Donegal, Master in Surgery, and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland;

Sir Boverton Redwood, Baronet, of Avenue road, in the metropolitan borough of St. Marylebone;

Sir John Henry Bethell, Baronet, of Park House, in the parish of Wanstead, in the county of Essex;

Sir Edward Beauchamp [aged 62], Baronet, of Grosvenor Place, in the city of Westminster;

Sir Henry Trentham Butlin, Baronet, of Harley-street, in the metropolitan borough of St. Marylebone, Doctor of Medicine, and late President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England;

Sir Edward Feetham Coates, Baronet, of Helperby Hall, Helperby, in the parish of Brafferton, in the North Riding of the county of York, Major (retired), Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment, 3rd Battalion;

Sir Nugent Talbot Everard, Baronet, of Randlestown, in the county of Meath, His Majesty's Lieutenant of the said county, late Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Commandant and Honorary Colonel Fifth Battalion the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment;

Sir James Frederic Goodhart, Baronet, of Portland Place, in the raetropolitaai borough of St. Marylebone, and of Holtye, in the county of Sussex, Doctor of Medi cine, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London;

Sir Arthur Adlington Haworth, Baronet, of Dunham Massey, in the county of Chester;

Sir John Bowen Bowen-Jones, Baronet, of St. Mary's Court, in the borough of Shrewsbury;

Sir Herbert Samuel Leon, Baronet, of Bletchley Park, in the parish of Bletchley, in the county of BucKingham;

Sir William Hesketh Lever [aged 60], Baronet, of Thornton Manor, in the parish of Thornton Hough, in the county of Chester; [[his wife] Elizabeth Ellen Hulme Lady Lever [aged 61] by marriage Lady Lever of Thornton Manor in Cheshire.]

Sir John Brownlee Lonsdale, Baronet, of Prince's Gardens, in the Royal borough of Kensington, and of The Pavilion, in the city and county of Armagh;

Sir Charles Tertius Mander, Baronet, of The Mount, in the parish of Tettenhall, in the county of Stafford;

Sir Arthur Basil Markham, Baronet, of Beachborough Park, in the parish of Newington, in the county of Kent;

Sir William Osier, Baronet, of Norham Gardens, in the city of Oxford, Regius Professor of Medicine of the University of Oxford and Fellow of the Royal Society;

Sir George Younger, Baronet, of Leckie, in the county of Stirling;

Sir Gustavus Francis William Lambart, Baronet, C.V.O., of Beau Pare, in the county of Meath, Major and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel (retired), 5th Batta lion, The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regi ment, Secretary of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick;

Sir Charles Garden Assheton-Smith, Baronet, of Vaynol Park, in the parish of Bangor, in the county of Carnarvon.

The London Gazette 32776. Whitehall, December 9, 1922. Letters Patent have passed the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland creating the undermentioned Earldoms, Viscountcies and Baronies:

The Right Honourable Frederick Edwin [aged 50], Viscount Birkenhead, to be Viscount Furneaux, of Charlton, in the County of Northampton, and Earl Of Birkenhead. [Margaret Eleanor Furneaux Countess of Birkenhead [aged 44] by marriage Countess Birkenhead.]

The Right Honourable Horace Brand [aged 78], Viscount Farquhar, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., late Lord Steward of the Household, to be Earl Farquhar.

The Right Honourable Arthur Hamilton, Baron Lee of Fareham, G.B.E., K.C.B., to be Viscount Lee of Fareham, of Bridport, in the County of Dorset.

William Hesketh [aged 71], Baron Leverhulme, to be Viscount Leverhulme, of The Western Isles, in the Counties of Inverness and Ross and Cromarty.

The Right Honourable Francis Bingham Mildmay to be Baron Mildmay Of Flete, of Totnes, in the County of Devon.

The Right Honourable Sir Joseph Paton Maclay, Baronet, to be Baron Maclay, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark.

The Right Honourable Sir Edward Alfred Goulding, Baronet, to be Baron Wargrave, of Wargrave Hall, in the County of Berks. Sir John Henry Bethell, Baronet, to be BARON BETHELL, of Romford, in the County of Essex.