On the authority of John Evelyn, coffee was first drunk in England at Balliol College, Oxford. "There came in my time to the college," records the diarist, "one Nathaniel Conopios, out of Greece, who, returning many years after, was made Bishop of Smyrna. He wa« the first I ever mw drink coffe, which custom came not into England nntil thirty years after." The first coffee-house in England was opened at Oxford in 1650 by a Jew named Jacob.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 56, 8 March 1941, Page 11
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