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Line 21: ==Parentage and childhood== Lipton was born in a tenement in Crown Street<ref name=r1>Blackwood, William (1933) "Sir Thomas Lipton" in ''The Post Victorians''. London : I. Nicholson & Watson</ref> in the [[Gorbals]], [[Glasgow]], on 10 May 1848. His [[ ~~Irish~~Ulster-Scots people\|~~Irish~~Ulster-Scots]] parents, Thomas Lipton senior and Frances Lipton (''née'' Johnstone), were from the [[townland]] of either Shannock Green or Shankillk (Tonitybog), both near [[Roslea]], in the south-east corner of [[County Fermanagh]] in [[Ulster]], not far from [[Clones, County Monaghan\|Clones]] in [[County Monaghan]]. His parents were married in St. Mark's [[Church of Ireland]] Church in [[Aghadrumsee]], near Roslea. The Liptons had been smallholders in [[County Fermanagh]] for generations but, by the late 1840s, Thomas Lipton's parents had been forced to leave Ireland due to the [[Great Famine (Ireland)\|Great Famine of 1845]]. Moving to Scotland in search of a better living for their young family, the Liptons had settled in Glasgow by 1847. Lipton's father had a number of occupations throughout the 1840s and 1850s, including working as a labourer and as a [[printer (publishing)\|printer]].

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