William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme, DL (25 March 1888 – 27 May 1949), was the son of William Hesketh Lever and Elizabeth Ellen, daughter of Crompton Hulme of Bolton.
He was educated at Eton College and graduated from Cambridge University (Trinity College) in 1913 with a master's degree in the Arts.[1][2] William Hulme Lever spent his early years at Thornton Manor which he inherited after his father's death in 1925.