Thomas Bates Blow (8 November 1853 – 16 January 1941) was a British botanist, apiculture equipment manufacturer, photographer, and a student of Japanese culture.
After education at a village school he went to study at Tring where he became interested in languages, photography, botany and bee-keeping.
He wrote on bee-keeping on his tour through Japan and made contact with the Japanese authorities involved in overseeing agriculture and apiculture.
He met Ernest Satow and visited several times, also collecting plants en route in India.
During World War I he moved to Europe and served in the French Red Cross as an ambulance driver at the Hôpital de L’Alliance in Yvetot.