Thomas Blake Glover, Order of the Rising Sun (6 June 1838 – 16 December 1911) was a Scottish merchant in Bakumatsu and Meiji period Japan.
Read more about Thomas Blake Glover: Early Life (1838–1858), Japan (1859–1911), Family, Residences, Honours, In Fiction
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