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James Lever Senior, father of Lord Lever, was a wholesale and retail grocer. He set his son William on the road to success” by giving him a copy of Samuel Smiles's Self-Help on his sixteenth birthday. (William later formed the famous Lever Brothers partnership with his brother James, becoming a major soap and detergent manufacturer, and benefactor; amongst his grand projects were the art gallery in which this bust stands, and the whole of Port Sunlight Village around it.) Something of James Lever Senior's far-sightedness and conservatism (see Davenport-Hines) can be seen in this work” by Edward Onslow Ford, one of Lord Lever's close friends.

Bibliography

Davenport-Hines, Richard. "Lever, William Hesketh, first Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online edition. Viewed 12 July 2009.

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