Tea Trivia: Answer for: Who is this?

Posted on | May 23, 2008 | No Comments

Answer: Arthur Brooke, founder of PG Tips Tea. In 1869, tea dealer, Arthur Brooke, opened his first shop in Manchester, England, where he sold tea, coffee and sugar.

Brooke’s early slogan was “good tea unites good company, exhilarates the spirits, opens the heart, banishes restraint from conversation and promote happiest purposes of social intercourse.”

Arthur Brooke had so intertwined tea and British life that his company continued to prosper even after his death in 1918.

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