Free Public Lecture
‘The Scottish Role in Developing the Ceylon Tea Enterprise’
PROFESSOR ANGELA MCCARTHY
University of Otago
Sunday 17 November 2019, 2pm
Toitū Otago Settlers Museum
Please join us for the last talk in our 2019 Global Migrations Public Lecture Series when our director, Professor Angela McCarthy, discusses the Scottish influence on the development of the Ceylon tea enterprise.
The talk will chart the role of Scots in the development of Ceylon tea, especially the influence of James Taylor, renowned in Sri Lanka today as the ‘father of the Ceylon tea enterprise’. What factors gave Scots an edge in the plantation economy of Ceylon, and what is the legacy of that influence today?
