Sir Maurice Levy, 1st Baronet

Sir Maurice Levy, 1st Baronet, JP, DL (9 June 1859 – 26 August 1933) was a British Liberal Party politician.

Early life Levy was born in 1859 in Leicester. He was the second son of Joseph Levy of Leicester and elder brother of Arthur Lever, who was also a Liberal MP and educated at London University.

Career He was Managing Director of Hart and Levy (Limited), wholesale merchants and manufacturers, of Leicester and London. He was knighted in 1907 and created first Levy Baronet, of Humberstone Hall in the County of Leicester, in 1913. During the First World War he worked under David Lloyd George at the Ministry of Munitions and was a member of Lloyd George's special trade mission to Ireland.

Violet Ray (1887–1972) Doris Pamela(1891–1988), who married Sir Henry Spencer Moreton Havelock-Allan, 2nd Baronet, in December 1937. She was appointed Serving Sister, Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in 1971. Alix Cordelia (1894–1996) Sir Ewart Maurice Levy, 2nd Baronet (1897–1996), who married Hylda Levy, a daughter of Sir Albert Levy, founder of the Ardath Tobacco Company, Ltd., and one of Britain's best known philanthropists, in 1932. Norah Sybil Charlotte (1899-), married firstly Sir John Richard Duckworth-King, 7th Baronet, in 1921, and secondly Captain Kenneth Frederick Every Woods in 1945.

Sir Maurice died on 26 August 1933 while on holiday at Brighton and was buried at Golders Green.