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LIPTON, SIR THOMAS JOHNSTONE, BART

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 744 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIPTON, See also:SIR See also:THOMAS See also:JOHNSTONE, See also:BART . (1850— ), See also:British See also:merchant, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow in 1850, of Irish parents. At a very See also:early See also:age he was employed as errand boy to a Glasgow stationer; at fifteen he emigrated to See also:America, where at first he worked in a grocery See also:store, and afterwards as a tram-See also:car See also:driver in New See also:Orleans, as a traveller for a portrait See also:firm, and on a See also:plantation in See also:South Carolina. Eventually, having saved some See also:money, he returned to Glasgow and opened a small See also:provision See also:shop. Business gradually increased, and by degrees Lipton had provision shops first all over See also:Scotland and then all over the See also:United See also:King-dom. To See also:supply his See also:retail shops on the most favourable terms, he See also:purchased extensive See also:tea, See also:coffee and See also:cocoa plantations in See also:Ceylon, and provided his own packing-See also:house for hogs in See also:Chicago, and See also:fruit farms, jam factories, bakeries and See also:bacon-curing establishments in See also:England. In 1898 his business was converted into a limited liability See also:company. At See also:Queen See also:Victoria's See also:diamond See also:jubilee in 1897 he gave 20,000 for providing dinners for a large number of the See also:London poor. In 1898 he was knighted, and in 1902 was made a See also:baronet. In the See also:world of yacht-racing he became well known from his repeated attempts to win the America See also:Cup.

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