John Harington Gubbins

John Harington Gubbins

John Harington Gubbins (1852-1929) was a British linguist, consular official and diplomat.

Education

Gubbins attended Harrow School and would have gone on to Cambridge University, had family finances allowed.

Career

Gubbins was appointed a student interpreter in the British Japan Consular Service in 1871; English Secretary to the Conference at Tokyo for the Revision of the Treaties, after Ernest Satow left Japan in 1883; and on June 1, 1889, became Japanese Secretary at Tokyo. He was employed in London at the Foreign Office from February to July 1894 in the Aoki-Kimberley negotiations which resulted in the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (July 16, 1894). He was, especially in retirement, a close friend of Satow's.

Despite having no university degree, Gubbins was awarded an honorary Master's degree from Balliol College and was made Lecturer in Japanese language at Oxford University (1909-12). Lack of pupils led to his position being terminated.

Family

He was the father of Colin Gubbins.

ee also

*Joseph Henry Longford

References

* Ian Nish, "John Harrington Gubbins, 1852-1929," chap. 8 in "Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits", vol. 2, edited by Ian Nish (Japan Library, 1997).

* Private correspondence from J.H. Gubbins to Sir Ernest Satow, 1908-27, UK Public Record Office (PRO 30/33 11/8, 11/9 and 11/10).


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