Background
LEVER, Harold was born on January 15, 1914 in Manchester. Son of the late Bernard and Bertha Lever.
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Harold Lever LEVER
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Manchester Grammar School and University of Manchester.
Career
Chairman Public Accounts Committee 1970-1973. Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on European Affairs 1970-1972, on Trade and Industry 1972-1974. Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 1974-1979.
Chairman World Jewish Congress, Jerusalem 1981, Royal Academy Fund-Raising Trust 1981-1987, London Interstate Bank Limited.
(now Study Direct Stream Bank Limited.) since 1984, Stormgard 1985-1987. Joint President European League for Economics Company-operation since 1982.
Chairman Authority Investments Public Limited Company 1984-1986, President since 1986. Honorary Fellow, Royal Academy 1981.
Headed inquiry into problems of small firms.
Membership
Board Directors The Guardian since 1979, Manchester Evening News since 1979. Committee of Inquiry into events leading to Argentine invasion of Falklands 1982.
Connections
Married Diane Zilkha in 1962.
