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From bitter poverty to global fame and fortune: The amazing life (and shocking secret love) of the grocery tycoon they called sport's greatest loser

By Gavin MadeleyDailymail.com

Somewhere en route from his swanky hotel room to New York's City Hall, Sir Thomas Lipton may have permitted himself a wry chuckle at the glorious irony of it all.

Somewhere en route from his swanky hotel room to New Yorks City Hall, Sir Thomas Lipton may have permitted himself a wry chuckle at the glorious irony of it all. He was, after all, a Gorbals boy who…