Ceylon Tea Board Archives

James Taylor and the Ceylon Tea Industry – By Michael Roberts Source : thuppahis Ceylon Tea Board on the occasion when the James Taylor Monument wa sunveiled n 29th January 2017 The commercial cultivation of tea in Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then known, is acknowledged to have commenced in 1867 at Loolecondera Estate, Hewaheta, in the Kandy District, by an enterprising young agriculturalist, James Taylor, a redoubtable Scotsman, of which extraction were most of the pioneers of the Industry. Taylor in the 1870s Taylor, the son of Michael Taylor and Margaret Moir, was born on March 29, 1835, in a cottage called “Moss Park” on the Monbodde Estate, near Laurencekirk in Kincardineshire. On being recruited as a Coffee Planter on Narenghena Estate, he arrived in Ceylon on February 20, 1852. Following a brief posting there, he was transferred to Loolecondera Estate, where he spent the rest of his life and eventually expired on ...

Memorable moment for me- the day I met Prince Phillip -by Irangani Gunatillake Memorable moment for me- the day I met Prince Phillip. It was in the year 1968, I was nominated as the Tea Queen to represent Sri Lanka at the Scottish Wholesale Society (SCWS), Centenary celebrations in Glasgow, on 5th July 1968. Queen Elizabeth 11, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh graced the occasion and declared open the centenary celebrations, on the 5th of July. The Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) was founded to serve the Scottish cooperative movement as a wholesaler, in 1868. This wholesale Society imported ‘Ceylon Tea’ during the eighteen nineties, and since it was a profitable venture those years, to show appreciation to the Tea trade, a Ceylon Tea exhibition Stall was initiated among other stalls, within the premises of the wholesale building where the celebration was held. I was sent as Tea ...