Ernest Mason Satow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernest Mason Satow

British diplomat

Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1843

Place of Birth: Upper Clapton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-Aug-1929

Profession: diplomat, translator, botanist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Sir Ernest Mason Satow, (30 June 1843 – 26 August 1929), was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist.Satow was born to an ethnically German father (Hans David Christoph Satow, born in Wismar, then under Swedish rule, naturalised British in 1846) and an English mother (Margaret, née Mason) in Clapton, North London.
He was educated at Mill Hill School and University College London (UCL). Satow was an exceptional linguist, an energetic traveller, a writer of travel guidebooks, a dictionary compiler, a mountaineer, a keen botanist (chiefly with F.
V.
Dickins) and a major collector of Japanese books and manuscripts on all kinds of subjects.
He also loved classical music and the works of Dante on which his brother-in-law Henry Fanshawe Tozer was an authority.
Satow kept a diary for most of his adult life which amounts to 47 mostly handwritten volumes. As a celebrity, albeit not a major one, he was the subject of a cartoon portrait by Spy in the British Vanity Fair magazine, 23 April 1903.