A different kind of shamrock …

With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner, I was busy looking through old photos on the Library of Congress website in search of something that combined the words "shamrock" and "tea." Well, I did find an old photograph that included both of those words, and while it wasn't at all what I was looking for, I was still intrigued. Do you recognize the dapper gent at the center of the photo?

The entry reads: "Photograph shows Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton (1848-1931), purveyor of Lipton teas and America's Cup challenger, and the crew of Shamrock IV at Morse's Dry Dock, Brooklyn, in preparation for the 1920 America's Cup race." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017)

If you haven't read A Full Cup, you can go here for my summary of the fine book about the life of Sir Thomas J. Lipton!