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John Harington Gubbins at AllExperts (267 words) |
 | John Harington Gubbins (1852-1929) was a British linguist, consular official and diplomat. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| Tours of Scotland, my native homeland. (215 words) |
| Colin Gubbins was born in Scotland in 1896. |
| Gubbins experiences in Russia and Ireland gave him considerable insights into the nature of guerrilla warfare. |
| Gubbins argued that for guerrilla warfare to succeed it needed daring leadership and a sympathetic population. |
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