Satow Sir Ernest Mason 1843-1929 Diplomat, Japanologist

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Satow Sir Ernest Mason 1843-1929 Diplomat, Japanologist

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        Sir Ernest Mason Satow was born in London and educated at Mill Hill School and University College, London. Satow was an exceptional linguist, an energetic traveller, a writer of travel guidebooks, a dictionary compiler, a mountaineer, a keen botanist, and a major collector of Japanese books and manuscripts on all kinds of subjects. He served in Japan and China as a diplomat and was Britain's second plenipotentiary at the Second Hague Peace Conference.

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