Leverhulme Memorial

The Leverhulme Memorial stands to the west of the Lady Lever Art Gallery on the junction of Windy Bank and Queen Mary's Drive, Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, England.

It commemorates the life of William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, the businessman who created the factory and model village of Port Sunlight.

His major business was soap making for which he built a factory and a model village for his workers at Port Sunlight.

Lever was a benevolent employer, caring for the welfare of his workers, and providing a high standard of housing for them.

The committee approached all the workers of Lever Brothers, which was by then a world-wide organisation, and received 22,000 individual contributions.

The figure on top is that of a female facing away from the art gallery, looking at the sky, with her arms raised.

[8] Nikolaus Pevsner was not enthusiastic about it, saying that it was "an interesting design, but surely superfluous", and he added the Latin phrase Si monumentum requiris, circumspice, which translates as "if you seek his monument, look around you".