Levy Baronets
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The Levy Baronetcy, of Humberstone Hall in the County of Leicester, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 4 February 1913 for Sir Maurice Levy, Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 Member of Parliament
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 for Loughborough
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 from 1900 to 1918. The third Baronet served as High Sheriff
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 of Leicestershire
Leicestershire
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 from 1937 to 1938. The title became extinct on his death in 1996.

Arthur Lever
Arthur Lever
For the Wales international footballer see Arthur Lever Sir Arthur Levy Lever, 1st Baronet , known as Arthur Levy until 1896, was a Liberal Party politician in England....

 (who had assumed the surname of Lever), younger brother of the first Baronet, was created a Baronet in 1911 (see Lever Baronets
Lever Baronets
There have been three Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Lever, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.The Lever Baronetcy, of Hans Crescent in Chelsea, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 8 February 1911 for the Liberal politician Arthur Lever...

).

Levy Baronets, of Humberstone Hall (1913)

  • Sir Maurice Levy, 1st Baronet (1859-1933)
  • Sir Ewart Maurice Levy, 2nd Baronet (1897-1996)
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