Lady Beatrice Hilda Levy was born Beatrice Hilda Falk, the third daughter of Philip and Sarah Falk who had married in the Manchester Registration District towards the end of 1860. Philip was a merchant, and the couple made their first home in the Cheetham area  before moving to Broughton House in the Broughton area of Salford. Sarah had three sons and two daughters before Beatrice was born in Salford on 3 November 1873.

 After moving to Palace Gardens in Kensington sometime after 1877, the family expanded their domestic staff; the 1881 census records ten servants supporting the parents and six children, their eldest son being away from home at that time.

Beatrice's father died early in 1890 and when the next census return was made Sarah was the head of the household. Beatrice's older brothers had both followed in their father's footsteps and were in business as Australian Merchants, whilst the three youngest offspring, including 17 year old Beatrice , were still in formal education.

On 12 February 1896 Beatrice married Arthur Levi Lever at the Reform Synagogue, Upper Berkeley Street.

Arthur was a Liberal Party politician who had recently changed his surname by deed poll, from Levy to Lever The couple had one son, Tresham Joseph Philip, born on 3 September 1900 in Leicester.

In 1906 Arthur was elected as Member of Parliament for Harwich, a seat that he held until 1910.

 In the spring of 1911, the census recorded the couple living at 20 Hans Crescent, Chelsea, with Arthur working as a clothing company director. Meanwhile, their son was away at board school at St Michaels School in Westgate-on-Sea. Later that same year, Arthur received a baronetcy, effectively granting Beatrice the title of Lady Lever.

She wrote a romantic comedy entitled "Brown Sugar" during the pre-war era. With the advent of WW1 in the summer of 1914, Sir Arthur served in the Royal Fusiliers and Lady Lever volunteered her services as a V.A.D. There are no records available that tell us more about her service, other than that she served at the Royal Free Military Hospital for Officers.

Around 1915, artist Ethel Wright painted a portrait of Lady Lever.

It was during her service at Hampstead General Hospital that Lady Lever contracted septic poisoning, a condition recognised today as sepsis. She subsequently succumbed to the infection at her home on 26 May 1917.

Lady Lever was 43 years old. Her death was announced in several newspapers, including the Surrey Mirror.

Lady Levy was buried in the Golders Green Jewish Cemetery. She is also remembered on the War Memorial at the West London Synagogue of British Jews in Marylebone.

It is understood that Sir Arthur funded the conservation of parts of the Five Sisters Window in York Minster in memory of his late wife. Probate was granted to Sir Arthur in December 1917. Lady Lever was officially recognised as a casualty of war in 2009.