12-05-2025
Goodbye to a visionary industrialist
From The Times, May 12, 1925The funeral of the late Viscount Leverhulme, which took place to-day at Christ Church, Port Sunlight, was the occasion of a remarkable demonstration of personal affection and public esteem. Some 15,000 persons lined the four-mile route from Thornton Manor and crowded the boulevards of the model village up to the precincts of the church. That building, which is one of the principal architectural features of Port Sunlight, was reserved for the private mourners and 1,000 privileged persons who attended the funeral in a representative capacity.
Overnight the coffin, after its removal from the Art Gallery, had remained at Thornton Manor, the residence of the Hon W Hulme Lever, now Viscount Leverhulme, and it was at Thornton Manor that the
