Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Viscount Leverhulme
Honorific-Suffix:KG TD
Office:Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire
Term Start:1949
Term End:1990
Predecessor:Sir William Bromley-Davenport
Successor:William Bromley-Davenport
Birth Date:1 July 1915
Nationality:British
Occupation:Racehorse owner
Parents:William Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme
Marion Beatrice Smith

Philip William Bryce Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme (1 July 1915  - 4 July 2000) was a British peer and racehorse owner.

Early life

He was the only son of the 2nd Viscount Leverhulme and his first wife, Marion Beatrice Smith. He was born on 1 July 1915. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Career

During the Second World War, he served in the Middle East with the Cheshire Yeomanry, and late became an honorary colonel. After the war, he managed his father's estates at Thornton Manor.[1] In 1954, he bought the Badanloch estate, in Sutherland, Scotland.

In 1949, he inherited his father's titles and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire that year, a post he held until 1990, making him the longest serving Lord Lieutenant in the country.

His lifelong passion was horse racing, the subject of his 1976 maiden speech in the House of Lords. A racehorse owner, he served as Chairman of Chester Racecourse and as a senior steward of the Jockey Club. He was a supporter of the Animal Health Trust, a veterinary research establishment. He was Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 1980 to 1993 and appointed a Knight Companion of the Garter in 1988.

Marriage and issue

On 1 July 1937, he married Margaret Ann Moon (died 1973), and they had three daughters:

Succession

He died on 4 July 2000. As Leverhulme was the last male descendant of the 1st Viscount and died without male heirs in 2000, his titles became extinct.

Honours and decorations



Ribbon Description Notes
Order of the Garter (KG)
  • Knight Companion
  • 1988
Order of St John (KStJ)
  • Knight of Justice
  • 1953
  • 1977
  • UK Version of this Medal
Territorial Decoration (TD)
Escutcheon:Per pale Argent and barry of eight Or and Azure two bendlets Sable the upper one engrailed in sinister chief a chaplet Gules and in the dexter base a rose of the last leaved and seeded Proper.
Crest:A trumpet fesswise thereon a cock Proper charged on the breast with a rose as in the arms.
Supporters:On either side an elephant Or charged on the shoulder with a rose Gules.
Motto:Mutare Vel Timere Sperno (I Scorn To Change Or Fear)[2]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Obituary - Viscount Leverhulme, KG . The Telegraph . 6 July 2000 . 2018-06-15 .
  2. Book: Debrett's Peerage . 1921 . 557.