King Of Sunlight

William Hesketh Lever - soap-boiler, social reformer, MP, tribal chieftain, multi-millionaire and Lord of the Western Isles - was one of the most extraordinary men ever to leave his mark on Britain.

Beliefs far ahead of their times - the welfare state, votes for women, workers'' rights - jostled in his mind with ideas that were fantastically bonkers - the world''s problems could be solved by moving...