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  • Memories of my Life in	Ceylon

    Memories of my Life in Ceylon

    Joan Turnbull (2021)

    To explain a little about my parents - my father was born at Crudgington Grange, Shropshire, went to Bloxham School near Banbury, did the ‘Grand Tour’ of Europe, worked for some time in a tea import company in London (which encouraged him to try his luck as a Tea Planter). He secured a job as a junior assistant (SD) on a low country tea estate in Ceylon in 1911. In 1914 he returned to England to join the Army and in World War I, joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and ..... Read More

  • Visit by Baron Timothy Renton to Middleton Estate in 1988

    Visit by Baron Timothy Renton to Middleton Estate in 1988

    Mahinda de Alwis (2021)

    Sometime in March 1988 when I was the Superintendent of Logie Estate, Talawakelle, the British High Commission in Colombo communicated with me via the State Plantations Corporation to the intended visit of Timothy Renton then Minister of State in the Thatcher Cabinet. Read More

  • Listing of the Blackett, Wilson & Scott Family Planting History in Ceylon

    Listing of the Blackett, Wilson & Scott Family Planting History in Ceylon

    Robert Wilson (2021)

    Penylan Estate 1853 – Pen-Y-Lan owned by R. Forbes 700 acres – Manager: Arthur Sinclair – Asst: A. Patterson. By 1864 he already owned Pen-Y-Lan and Doteloya. He may have purchased these in or before 1854 or they may have been abandoned. Elevation 2,600 to 3,300 feet. Read More

  • Charles Stanley Braine (1874-1944) - the Rajah of Mawatte

    Charles Stanley Braine (1874-1944) - the Rajah of Mawatte

    Charles Stanley was born in Ceylon on 25 December 1874. He was the eldest son of Charles Frederick Braine and Adeline Mary Becher, who had married in London earlier that year. Read More

  • A Day in the Life of a Planter

    A Day in the Life of a Planter

    Anura Gunasekera (2021)

    Retrospect provides objectivity. What one has done in one’s lifetime is best viewed from afar. A planter’s workday may have not changed substantially, since the old coffee days of the mid-19th century, till perhaps the 1980s. Read More

  • Book Review – Wisdom in the Leaf – A Generation of tea inspired knowledge

    Book Review – Wisdom in the Leaf – A Generation of tea inspired knowledge

    Graeme Tissera (2021)

    The Sri Lankan tea academia, tea enthusiasts and the tea community at large, would no doubt consider it a rare privilege to have an opportunity to enrich their tea libraries with an authentic, Sri Lankan home grown publication on the art of tea. Read More

  • QTrade’s Manik Jayakumar to Receive ‘The John Harney Lifetime Achievement Award’ at World Tea Expo 2019

    QTrade’s Manik Jayakumar to Receive ‘The John Harney Lifetime Achievement Award’ at World Tea Expo 2019

    NEW YORK (May 15, 2019) — Manik Jayakumar, founder of QTrade Teas & Herbs, will receive The John Harney Lifetime Achievement Award at World Tea Expo, to be held June 11-13 (with a pre-conference program on June 10) at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev. Read More

  • MALCOLM HAROLD DE RUN

    MALCOLM HAROLD DE RUN

    Nihal & Mohan de Run, and Mala Miles (nee de Run) (2021)

    Malcolm Harold de Run was a late beginner in the late 1950s, a fast finisher in the late 1960s, and way ahead of his time as a plantation manager. Read More

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