Earl Grey. Tea was the least of his accomplishments.

[Baruch Menachem]

Earl Grey was Lord of the Admiralty in 1806 and became foreign minister after the death of Fox.

In 1832 he became prime minister, and was responsible for the passage of the first reform act and the abolition of slavery in all the british territories.

 

[random3434]

Thank you ginscpy!

 

[Baruch Menachem]

From Wiki

In 1864 Lipton signed up as a cabin boy on a steamer running between Glasgow and Belfast and was captivated by life aboard the ship and the stories told by sailors who had traveled to the United States. After being let go by the steamer company, Lipton quickly used the wages he had saved to purchase passage on a ship bound for the U.S., where he would spend five years working and traveling all over the country. Lipton had a number of jobs during this time: at a tobacco plantation in Virginia, as an accountant and bookkeeper at a rice plantation in South Carolina, as a door-to-door salesman in New Orleans, a farmhand in New Jersey, and finally as a grocery assistant in New York.
He returned to Glasgow in 1870, initially helping his parents run their small shop in the Gorbals. The following year he opened his first provision shop—Lipton's Market—at 101 Stobcross Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow. This enterprise proved to be successful and Lipton soon established a chain of groceries, first across Glasgow, the rest of Scotland, until finally he had stores throughout Britain. While Lipton was expanding his empire, tea prices were falling and demand was growing among his middle class customers. In 1880, Lipton invested in the young stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska, founding a large packing plant in South Omaha. He sold it to American interests in 1887. In 1888, when his empire had grown to 300 stores, he entered the tea trade and opened his tea-tasting office. He started bypassing traditional trading and wholesale distribution channels (most UK tea-trading was focused in London's Mincing Lane) in order to sell teas at unprecedented prices to the untapped poor working class market. In order to provide his shops with goods Lipton bought plantations and in doing so - amongst other things - he established the Lipton tea brand which is still in existence today.
Thomas Lipton visited Sri Lanka in the 1890s and made business deals with James Taylor the man who introduced tea plantations to Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Lipton's company purchased tea from Sri Lanka and distributed it through Europe and the USA. In 1902 he was created a Baronet, of Osidge in the Parish of Southgate in the County of Middlesex.

Sounds like a cool dude. Must have been hell to work for though.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Well you wanted more activity in the Tea Party forum...... Be careful what you ask for

 

[random3434]

Well you wanted more activity in the Tea Party forum...... Be careful what you ask for

No, I just want people to put their threads where they belong. But no biggie, that's why we mods get paid so well, to do the job for y'all!


Now, you're making me thirsty for some iced tea. Lipton is awaiting!

 

[Zona]

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[Baruch Menachem]

England has a unique power problem due to the way they do TV commercials, the fact they like tea, and that the run 220 volts for ordinary house current.

At the end of every popular TV show, millions of Britons turn on their electric tea kettles at once, which causes incredible power load shifts. They have a special electric power station in Wales which can be turned on in seconds and provide enough power to the whole country for five minutes to meet the load, and then be turned off.