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Tea Trade and Sir Thomas
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Did You Know? Tea Trade and Sir Thomas Lipton
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Many of the tea plantations in India were developed by Scots.
By the late 1800’s Thomas Lipton controlled 10% of the world tea trade.
Lipton was born in a Gorbals tenement in Glasgow and emigrated to America when he was 15 years of age.
He returned to Glasgow five years later and opened his first grocers shop. Soon he had expanded into a chain of shops and was a millionaire by the time he was 30.
Much of his fortune was spent unsuccessfully competing for the Americas Cup, the premier sailing trophy.
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