Died 1931-10-02.
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Thomas Lipton
Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet was a Scotsman of Ulster Scots parentage who was a self-made man, as company founder of Lipton Tea, merchant, philanthropist and yachtsman who lost 5 America's Cup races.
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business · Scottish businessman (1848–1931) · merchant · entrepreneur · athlete · also Thomas Lipton, Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet, Sir Thomas Lipton, Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Lipton
Born 10 May 1848 · Died 2 October 1931 · Q506188
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s home in Crown Street in the Gorbals in 1850, there is no record of this in the parish register for that period. In the 1851 census, however, the family were recorded as living in the north of Glasgow, with young Thomas being listed as being 3 years old, suggesting that he must have been born in 1848. Thomas
1931· 1 entry
1930· 1 entry
Thomas Lipton donated the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy and The Lipton Challenge Cup in Italy
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1924· 1 entry
A portrait of Lipton appeared on the cover of Time magazine on 3 November 1924.
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1914· 1 entry
Presented the silver Sir Thomas Lipton Cup to his friend Con Riley of Winnipeg as a means of promoting the sport of rowing in the central portions of Canada and the United States
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1903· 1 entry
Was satirised by Neil Munro in his Erchie Macpherson story, "Erchie Suffers a Sea Change", published in the Glasgow Evening News on 1 June 1903
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1902· 1 entry
On 24 July 1902 he was created Baronet of Osidge, in the Parish of Southgate, in the County of Middlesex.
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1900· 1 entry
When they parted other male companions followed, including an orphan from Crete whom Lipton met during a cruise in 1900.
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1897· 1 entry
Gave £20,000 for providing dinners for a large number of the London poor
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1890· 1 entry
And made business deals with James Taylor, who introduced tea gardens to the country with indentured Tamil workers from British India
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1888· 1 entry
When his empire had grown to 300 stores, he entered the tea trade and opened his tea-tasting office
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1880· 1 entry
Lipton invested in the Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska, founding a large packing plant in South Omaha which he sold to American interests in 1887
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1870· 1 entry
Initially helping his parents run their small shop in the Gorbals
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1864· 1 entry
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 travelled to the United States
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1850· 2 entries
There is no record of this in the parish register for that period
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“s home in Crown Street in the Gorbals in 1850, there is no record of this in the parish register for that period. In the 1851 census, however, the family were recorded as living in the north of Glasgow, with young Thomas being listed as being 3 years old, suggesting that he must have been born in 1848. Thomas”
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1848· 1 entry
Born 1848-05-10.
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