Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton , born with Glasgow the May 10th 1850 and died in London the October 2nd 1931, is commercial and navigator of pleasure Scottish, Coil-made man and creator celebrates it mark of the “Lipton”.

He was the most persevering challenger of the Coupe of America.

In 1865, Lipton left to the the United States where it occupied various employment. At the end of five years, it returned in Great Britain and opened its first shop in Glasgow. Its company was success and Lipton establishes soon a chain of grocers through all Great Britain.

In order to supply its stores, Lipton bought plantations. Thus it launched celebrates it mark of the Lipton which still exists.

The kings Edouard VII and George V had the same interest for the pleasure that Sir Lipton and appreciated its company. Between 1899 and 1930, it defied five times the American defendants of the Cut of America with the Royal Ulster Yacht Club (Lipton was of Irish origin), with its yachts called Shamrock , Shamrock V . Its efforts largely popularized to gain the Cut of America brought back to him a special cut created for the “  the best of all perdants  ” and contributed to the celebrity of the mark in the United States.

In 1902, it was made Baronnet Lipton d' Osidge, Middlesex, in the Pairie of the United Kingdom. Coil-made man , Lipton was not a natural member of the British aristocratic class and it does not succeed in belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron, the yacht the most prestigious club of the the United Kingdom, that little time before its death.

Well before the first Football world cup (1930), Sir Thomas Lipton financed the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, which organized two international tournaments of football in Turin in 1909 and 1911.