The Life And Times Of The Late Thomas J Lipton
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The Life And Times Of The Late Thomas J Lipton
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Author : John J. Hickey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10
The Life And Times Of The Late Thomas J Lipton written by John J. Hickey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
The Life And Times Of The Late Sir Thomas J Lipton From The Cradle To The Grave Etc With Plates Including Portraits
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Author : John J. HICKEY (of the New York Police.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
The Life And Times Of The Late Sir Thomas J Lipton From The Cradle To The Grave Etc With Plates Including Portraits written by John J. HICKEY (of the New York Police.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with categories.
The Life And Times Of The Late Sir Thomas J Lipton
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Author : John J. Hickey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06-01
The Life And Times Of The Late Sir Thomas J Lipton written by John J. Hickey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-01 with categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Life And Times Of The Late Sir Thomas Lipton Etc
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Author : John J. Hickey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
Life And Times Of The Late Sir Thomas Lipton Etc written by John J. Hickey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with categories.
The Life And Times Of The Late Sir Thomas J Lipton From The Cradle To The Grave
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Author : John J. Hickey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
The Life And Times Of The Late Sir Thomas J Lipton From The Cradle To The Grave written by John J. Hickey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with categories.
Sir Thomas Lipton
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Author : James Mackay
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-12-21
Sir Thomas Lipton written by James Mackay and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Thomas Lipton burst onto the national scene in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The Princess of Wales had launched a £30,000 fund to provide a Jublilee dinner for the poor, but, with only weeks to go, no more than £5,000 had been subscribed. Lipton saved the day by writing a cheque for £25,000. The annonymous gift created massive press speculation and even greater publicity when the identity of the donor leaked out two days later. Lipton's generosity earned him a knighthood and propelled him into society at the highest level, a personal friend of the future King and Queen. Many of the myths that surrounded Lipton in the latter part of his life were created at this time and would be fixed for ever in his autobiography, published shortly after his death in 1931. Until now, what we know of Sir Thomas Lipton, grocery millionaire and yachtsman, is what he chose to tell the world about himself. Now literally detective James Mackay has uncovered the true story of one of the turn of the century's most extrordinary, larger-than-life characters, a story which is indefinitely more dramatic than the accepted version. Virtually everything Lipton tells us about himself is now shown to be untrue - even the origins of his family, his name, his date of birth and the place where he was born. The man who was hailed as the world's most eligible bachelor (his name was linked romantically with Rose Fitzgerald, the future mother of John F. Kennedy) had at least two skeletons in the closet - a youthful indescretion which led to a forced marriage, and a homosexual affair which lasted for thirty years. As a self-publicist he was a genius, and this was the key to his remarkable success. Beginning with a small shop in Glasgoe in 1871 he created a nationwide grocery chain second to none. In the process, he revolutionised the grocery retail trade, dealing direct with producers and eventually controlling production himself, with tea estates in Ceylon and meat-packing plants in Chicago. He combined a flair for organisation with superb showmanship, with stunts such as five-ton cheeses stuffed with gold sovereigns. In 1898 his company went public in one of the most successful share issues in stockmarket history. Lipton developed an interest in yachting which he pursued with the same single-mindedness as his business ventures. Between 1898 and 1930 he challenged for the America's Cup with a succession of yachts called Shamrock, but the rules of the race were heavily weighted in favour of the American defenders. The saga of his challenges, his near triumphs and the disappointments that would have destroyed a less heroic figure has become the most stirring in the annals of sport, and provides a fitting conclusion to the life of a maverick and outsider who was also one of the most colourful and flamboyant tycoons of all time.
The Man Who Challenged America
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Author : Laurence Brady
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2013-03-08
The Man Who Challenged America written by Laurence Brady and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born in Glasgow in 1850, Thomas Lipton was one of the world's first global entrepreneurs. His showmanship, business flair and customer-driven focus created a chain of nationwide grocery stores and the thriving Lipton tea business, making him a multi-millionaire. One key to his success was his complete control of every business he undertook, from production to the customer. A keen yachtsman, he mounted a British challenge against the American holders of the America's Cup on five occasions between 1898 and 1930 but was unsuccessful each time. Yet, in the process of doing so, his fame spread around the world and his name became a byword for sportsmanship and diplomacy. What is more, Lipton's astute association of business with a sport of international dimension established a trend that has become an accepted part of life today. Lipton exemplified the values of competitiveness, sportsmanship, perseverance and leadership in global business. Yet until now, no biography of Lipton has brought together these strands. Published at the advent of the America's Cup in Europe in 2007, this book reassesses and re-evaluates the life of the man whose dream it was to wrestle the Cup from American hands.
A Thirst For Empire
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Author : Erika Rappaport
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-05
A Thirst For Empire written by Erika Rappaport and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-05 with Cooking categories.
"Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women--through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa--transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. As Erika Rappaport shows, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries the boundaries of the tea industry and the British Empire overlapped but were never identical, and she highlights the economic, political, and cultural forces that enabled the British Empire to dominate--but never entirely control--the worldwide production, trade, and consumption of tea. Rappaport delves into how Europeans adopted, appropriated, and altered Chinese tea culture to build a widespread demand for tea in Britain and other global markets and a plantation-based economy in South Asia and Africa. Tea was among the earliest colonial industries in which merchants, planters, promoters, and retailers used imperial resources to pay for global advertising and political lobbying. The commercial model that tea inspired still exists and is vital for understanding how politics and publicity influence the international economy ..."--Jacket.
The Lipton Story
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Author : Alec Waugh
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-04-22
The Lipton Story written by Alec Waugh and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this rich and engrossing biography of Thomas Lipton, Alec Waugh has recreated the fascinating and complex figure of a man who became a legend in his own lifetime, a millionaire before he was forty, an unofficial ambassador at large, and an unforgettable sportsman to millions of people. The son of a struggling grocer, Lipton, while still a boy, showed the business acumen that was later to make him millions by expanding his father's small store into a vast network of shops. A love of the sea had been with him from childhood, and yacht racing became the guiding passion of his later years. In 1898 he issued his first Cup challenge and brought Shamrock J to America. By this time Lipton's business enterprises had made him into an international figure. Then a curious thing happened. He bought five successive Shamrocks to America and saw every one of them go down in defeat. Yet each defeat seemed only to brighten Sir Thomas's popularity and prestige. He became, without ever winning, a symbol of the American ideal of sportsmanship. Never better than in this biography, Alec Waugh has caught the excitement, colour, and romance of a busy and successful life.
The Man Who Invented Himself
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Author : James Alexander Mackay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Man Who Invented Himself written by James Alexander Mackay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Thomas Lipton was born in the Gorbals, and by the age of 15 had emigrated to America. He returned to Scotland with his head full of retail ideas. This book explores his life, sportsmanship, philanthropy, and success as a businessman as he opened shop after shop in Scotland and England.