British diplomat, scholar and author
According to Wikipedia, William George Aston was an Anglo-Irish diplomat, author and scholar-expert in the language and history of Japan and Korea. Early life Aston was born near Derry, Ireland. He distinguished himself at Queen's College, Belfast , which he attended 1859–1863. There he received a very thorough philological training in Latin, Greek, French, German and modern history. One of his professors was James McCosh.
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