Family Home of Thomas Blake Glover 1838-1911 at Glover House in 1864

Family Home of Thomas Blake Glover

From Aberdeen to Nagasaki, Thomas Blake Glover  instrumental in the Meiji Restoration in Japan, is also remembered for his instrumental role in establishing the development of mining, ship-building and beer making. This led to the founding of Kirin Beer and his company eventually becoming Mitsubishi of Japan. A truely intriguing out come.

This is the location of one of the Glover’s family homes, called Glover House they moved here in 1864 when the success of Thomas was already happening after he left Jardine Matheson and had set-up his own firm.

The address is

Glover House, 79 Balgownie Road, Bridge of Don Aberdeen AB22 8JS
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