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    James Taylor (29 March 1835 - 2 May 1892) was a Scottish tea planter who introduced the industry of tea farming to British Ceylon. He arrived to British...
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  • terracotta James Taylor (neurologist) (1859–1946), British neurologist James Taylor (tea planter) (1835–1892), in Sri Lanka James B. Taylor (educator)...
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    green teas. The two types of green tea produced are the gunpowder type and sencha. The industry was introduced to the country in 1867 by James Taylor, a...
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    Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East...
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    born in Inverbervie, designer of the Cutty Sark James Murdoch, born in Stonehaven James Taylor (tea planter) born on the Monboddo estate, Laurencekirk Robert...
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  • Norman Rowsell (category Planters from British Ceylon)
    Championships at Nuwara Eliya. Ceylon tea Thomas Lipton Tea production in Sri Lanka James Taylor (tea planter) Ferguson, John (1884). Ferguson's Ceylon...
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    The history of tea spreads across many cultures throughout thousands of years. The tea plant Camellia sinensis is native probably originated in the borderlands...
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  • socialite, accused in a murder trial (died 1928 in the United States) James Taylor, tea planter (died 1892 in Ceylon) 5 April – Donald Cameron, 24th Lochiel,...
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    of black tea. In 1978, Mike and Norma Grant-Cook, tea planters from Ceylon, established the Madura Tea Estates in Murwillumbah (Tweed River valley) in north-eastern...
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    the Sri Lanka Tea Board and the Planters’ Association of Sri Lanka. The museum contains exhibits on tea pioneers, including James Taylor and Thomas Lipton...
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    CNN.com". CNN. November 18, 2013. Bauer, K. Jack (1985). Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. Louisiana State University Press...
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    or in Colombo. As the Scottish coffee and tea planters, including Sri Lanka's first tea planter James Taylor, settled in the country, they named their...
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    escalated over the tea tax, as Americans in each colony boycotted the tea, and those in Boston dumped the tea in the harbor during the Boston Tea Party in 1773...
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    the new crop. In between this tea industry was introduced to the country in 1867 by James Taylor, the British planter who arrived in 1852, in Lool Kandura...
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    George Washington (category 18th-century American planters)
    that regionalism, partisanship, and foreign influence pose to it. As a planter of tobacco and wheat, Washington owned many slaves. He grew to oppose slavery...
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    form majorities in almost every northern state. White Southerners of the planter class became alarmed at the threat to the future of slavery in the United...
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    pp. 72–73 Unger 2009, pp. 81–82 Gawalt, Gerard W. (1993). "James Monroe, Presidential Planter". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 101 (2):...
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    1773, activists disguised as Indians instigated the Boston Tea Party and dumped chests of tea owned by the British East India Company into Boston Harbor...
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    manager and record producer, helping to foster the recording careers of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt among others. As of 2018, he tours alongside Jeremy...
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    hotel's famous afternoon tea. The glass dome had been covered since World War II. A new teashop and patisserie is called Savoy Tea, and a glass-enclosed...
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  • Clerihew (1811 – 6 March 1870) was a Scottish architect, artist, coffee planter and inventor. He painted and measured the comet with the longest tail recorded...
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    Fitzsimons, James McHenry, William Paterson, James Smith, George Taylor, Charles Thomson, Matthew Thornton Scotland: Edward Telfair, James Wilson, John...
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  • Falklands War. In 1949, Morris married Elizabeth, daughter of Ceylon tea planter Austen Cecil Tuckniss; they had five children together, including the...
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    Noakes, Taylor C. "Oregon Treaty". The Canadian Encyclopedia. James (1997), pp. 179–182 James (1997), pp. 190, 193 James (1997), pp. 185–186 James (1997)...
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    of Clarence, supported the efforts of the London Society of West India Planters and Merchants to delay the abolition of the British slave trade for almost...
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    the widow Elizabeth Clay married Captain Henry Watkins, a successful planter and cousin to John Clay. Elizabeth would have seven more children with...
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    1845 and died two days later) Stuart Caradoc Munro (1826 - 1911), a tea-planter in Ceylon, who left no issue. Maxwell William Munro (1827 - 1854, died...
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    Margaret; Taylor, C. James, eds. (2007). My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Richardson, James Daniel...
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    Louisiana". USGenWeb Archives. "The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer". The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer. 9: 350. November 12, 1892...
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    'Remorse'; show it to me.": 134  — John Randolph of Roanoke, American planter and politician (24 May 1833) "If I should die, it will not be for the beating...
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