Nawomitsu Nabeshima

An inked inscription verso in a period hand reads: ‘With best wishes / N. Nabeshima / 1897.’ An inked inscription in the lower right-hand corner of the print reads: ’N. Nabeshima - 97-.’

He is mentioned in an article in a local newspaper under the headline ‘Wholesale Prosecution of Cambridge Cyclists.’ ‘At the Cambridge Borough Police Court […] The following were fined 1s. Each without costs for similar offences [..] Nawomitsu Nabeshima (21) of Caius College’ (Saffron Walden Weekly News, 12 November 1897).

According to Alumni Cantabriensis, Marquess Nawomitsu Nabeshima was admitted to Caius College in October 1895. He was born on 20 August 1875 in Tokyo. He graduated BA in 1898 and MA in 1903. From 1901 to 1906 he was ‘Farming near Tokyo,’ He was later ‘Attached to the Resident-General’s bureau in Seoul, 1906-12’ and was a “Member of the Upper House, Japanese Parliament, from 1921.’

Presumably his father was Naohiro Nabeshima (1846-1921), the 11th and final daimyo of Saga Domain.

Photographed by Messrs. Stearn of Cambridge.