Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles

Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles is in Viscountcies of England Alphabetically.

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.

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On 7th May 1925 William Lever 1st Viscount Leverhulme [aged 73] died. He was buried at Christ Church, Port Sunlight [Map]. His son William [aged 37] succeeded 2nd Viscount Leverhulme of the Western Isles, 2nd Baron Leverhulme of Bolton le Moors in Lancashire, 2nd Baronet Lever of Thornton Manor in Cheshire. Marion Beatrice Smith Viscountess Leverhulme [aged 38] by marriage Viscountess Leverhulme of the Western Isles.

Marion Beatrice Smith Viscountess Leverhulme: On 6th July 1886 she was born to Bryce Smith. On 13th April 1912 William Lever 2nd Viscount Leverhulme and she were married. In 1936 William Lever 2nd Viscount Leverhulme and Marion Beatrice Smith Viscountess Leverhulme were divorced. On 30th August 1987 she died.

On 20th January 1937 William Lever 2nd Viscount Leverhulme [aged 48] and Winifred Agnes Lloyd Viscountess Leverhulme [aged 37] were married. She by marriage Viscountess Leverhulme of the Western Isles.