Francis Brinkley
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Francis Brinkley was an Anglo-Irish newspaper owner, editor and scholar who resided in Meiji period Japan for over 40 years, where he was the author of numerous books on Japanese culture, art and arch
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Henry Spencer Palmer
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Major-General Henry Spencer Palmer was a British Royal Engineer who was a member of the elite Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment that founded British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia, and
Francis Brinkley
…some of them even criticised the newspaper as nothing more than a "government propaganda organ". After the First Sino-Japanese War, Brinkley succeeded Henry Spencer Palmer and became the Tokyo-based correspondent for The Times of London. He gained fame for his dispatches during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. Brinkley…
Major General Henry Spencer Palmer
Yokohama Water Works: Boiler at the intake, Mi-i Village, 1886–87
Yokohama Water Works: Pump at the intake, Mi-i Village, 1886–87
Yokohama Water Works: Iron pipeline route, Sagami-hara Tsumara Village, 1886–87