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5 Jus Gentium: J. Int'l Legal Hist. 185 (2020)
Thomas Baty: Legal Adviser to the Government of Japan

handle is hein.journals/jusge5 and id is 185 raw text is: THOMAS BATY: LEGAL ADVISER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN WILLIAM E. BUTLER In his autobiographical sketch Thomas Baty (1869-1954) recorded that he was born at Stanwix, County of Cumberland, on 9 February. Precocious - able to read at the age of four - he confessed to difficulties with elementary arithmetic and longed throughout his lifetime, he said, to be a lady, whom he admired for beauty, sweetness, persistence, and tenacity. He attended a Christian church but learned at home that the essence of religion was to do and think right. Arthur Penhryn Stanley (1815-1881) and Alfred Williams Momerie (1848-1900) were admired, and in due course Baty became Broad Church. Influenced by reading Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Baty came to recognize the unity of all religions and ignored the Hebrew and Christian accidents of historical religion.' He later became a Theosophist and Sinto-ist. His father, William Thomas Baty, a cabinet maker, passed away on Christmas Day in 1876, when Thomas was but seven years of age. He attended Carlisle Grammar School from 1880 to 1888 and won a North of England Exhibition to Queen's College Oxford, receiving his B. A. with Honours in Jurisprudence in 1892. In 1893 he became Whewell Senior Scholar in International Law at the University of Cambridge and in 1895 returned to Oxford as the Stowell Civil Law Fellow of University College. Oxford University conferred the degree of D.C.L. in 1901 and the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) the LL.M. in 1901 and the LL.D. in 1903. He qualified as a Solicitor in 1893, having completed a clerkship in the firm of Field, Roscoe & Co., but chose not to *Member of the Editorial Board. Baty's autobiographical sketch was published at his direction in his Reminiscences. See Thomas Baty, Alone in Japan: The Reminiscences of an International Jurist Resident in Japan 1916-1964, ed. Motokichi Hasegawa (Tokyo, 1959), pp. 185-187. The typewritten manuscript was published as he left it, apart from correcting obvious typographical errors and adding the occasional footnote, duly marked. 185

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