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George Leonard Staunton
Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1st Baronet (10 April 1737 – 14 January 1801) was a botanist and employee of the East India Company in the late eighteenth century. He was the first Westerner to observe the use of orange flavouring in tea (in what was to became Earl Grey tea) in China in 1793.
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