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Glover House
Glover House, 79 Balgownie Road, Bridge of Don Aberdeen AB22 8JS
This Victorian House is the family home of Thomas Blake Glover (1838-1911), whose family lived at Bridge of Don from 1849, moving to this house in 1864.
Thomas Blake Glover is today revered in Japan as being one of the founders of modern Japan. He had a crucial role in the industrialisation of Japan and in the introduction of Western developments in manufacturing, while helping to overthrow the Shogun and restoring the rightful heir to the Imperial Throne of Japan. His personal life may also have provided the basis for the Madam Butterfly story, immortalised in the opera by Puccini.