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The Story of Ceylon Tea-by Preeti Verma Lal Lipton’s statue at Lipton’s Seat Source:Dailynews Nearly 6,000 feet above sea level, the Glasgow man with a receding hairline, bigger-than-walrus moustache and palpable pomposity did not have an ornate throne. It was an ordinary perch where lay a rattan chair and often, a gold-rimmed tea cup. Lipton: King of all he surveys As an old man, he would stare at the wide green valley below, discard humility and boast brusquely: “Everything that you can see from here is mine.” Untrue tale? No. It is a real story. So is the millionaire. The Glasgow dandy was Sir Thomas J. Lipton, the one who lent his last name to a famed tea brand. And yes, forgive the man’s conceit, everything that one can see from Lipton’s Seat in Sri Lanka’s Haputale was actually Lipton’s. Lipton’s Seat signboard Call it absent-minded coincidence or a quirk of fate, ...