Sir William Wilson Hunter
Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘Sir William Wilson Hunter’
In The Copybook
Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘Sir William Wilson Hunter’
In The Copybook
Sir William Hunter looks back over a Government committee’s plan to introduce tea cultivation to India in 1834.
The British drink almost 36 billion cups of tea each year, a trend set by King Charles II’s Portuguese wife, Queen Catherine. The tea itself came exclusively from China, which by the early Nineteenth Century had become a cause for concern. What if China were to close her ports to Europe, as neighbouring Japan had done? So the Government set up a Tea Committee.