Subsequently, he was given a life peerage as Baron Lever, of Ardwick in the City of Manchester on 10 July 1975.
[1] He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and read law at Leeds University.
He was a solicitor and poor man's lawyer between 1928 and the advent of Legal Aid in 1948, funding his impecunious clients' cases out of his own pocket if they lost.
He was knighted by Popes John XXIII and Paul VI,[citation needed] as well as by the Queen in 1970[2] for his philanthropic work.
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