Tea Pioneers: Horniman’s Tea

In addition to publishing Tea Guy Speaks, I'm a regular contributor to The English Tea Store blog. Here's an article I recently wrote for them. Click the link to read the full article.

Tea Pioneers: Horniman’s Tea
By William I. Lengeman III

Tea companies come and tea companies go, though it’s worth noting that there are several such firms that measure their age in centuries rather than merely in years. If you’d been drinking tea in the nineteenth century, chances are you’d have been aware of Horniman’s Tea. Though they only got started in the early nineteenth century, according to some accounts by the end of that century they were the world’s largest tea trading company.

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