Thomas Blake Glover
Thomas Blake Glover
(
June 6
,
1838
-
December 13
,
1911
), known as the "Scottish Samurai", was a trader from the North East of Scotland, instrumental in the founding of what was later to become the
Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan
. He was responsible for commissioning the first iron-clad warship in the
Imperial Japanese Navy
(the
Jho Sho Maru
) which was built in Aberdeen, and he was the first non-Japanese to be awarded the
Order of the Rising Sun
. Glover's Japanese wife is said to have been the inspiration behind the libretto for
Puccini's
opera,
Madama Butterfly
.
See also
Foreign cemetries in Japan
External links
Thomas Blake Glover - The Scottish Samurai
Famous Scots
Glover Garden
Glover, Thomas Blake Glover, Thomas Blake
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