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BART SIR THOMAS JOHNSTONE LIPTON

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

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