John Harington Gubbins CMG (24 January 1852 – 23 February 1929) was a British linguist, consular official and diplomat.
Gubbins attended Harrow School and would have gone on to Cambridge University, had family finances allowed.
[citation needed] Gubbins was appointed a student interpreter in the British Japan Consular Service in 1871.
He was English Secretary to the Conference at Tokyo for the Revision of the Treaties, after Ernest Satow left Japan in 1883.
41-year-old Gubbins and 24-year-old Helen fell in love and were married in Newington, Scotland,[1] in 1894, then lived in Japan.