William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme

[1][2] William Hulme Lever spent his early years at Thornton Manor which he inherited after his father's death in 1925.

Due to the merger of the two firms, many staff employed at the Warrington factory were moved to London, including senior managers.

When the railway lines around the Congo River rapids were rebuilt between 1923 and 1932 the regime mobilised 68,000 forced labourers of which 7,700 died".

In 1936, William, 2nd Lord Leverhulme, paid for many improvements to the church, including widening the chancel and providing choir stalls, a communion table and a pulpit.

A valuable bust, by Sir Charles Wheeler, of William, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme, was stolen in 2009 from the plinth near his parents' tombs in Christ Church, Port Sunlight.