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Kikuchi Dairoku (菊池大麓 ''Kikuchi Dairoku'', March 17 , 1855 – August 19 , 1917 ) was born in Edo , the second son of Mitsukuri Shuhei . KIKUCHI'S LIFE AND CAREER Kikuchi was the first ever Japanese student to graduate from Cambridge University ( St. John's College ) and the only one to graduate from London University in the 19th Century . He first came to Britain in 1866 aged 11, the youngest of a group of Japanese sent by the Tokugawa Shogunate (Bakufu) which was enrolled at University College School on the advice of the then British foreign minister Edward Stanley, 15th Earl Of Derby . Kikuchi later became a President of Tokyo Imperial University , Minister of Education and President of Kyoto Imperial University . He was made a Baron in 1902, and was the eighth president of Gakushuin and briefly the first President of the Science Research Institute of Japan (Rikagakukenkyusho or RIKEN , the equivalent of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University). He died in 1917. MITSUKURI FAMILY Kikuchi was a member of Japan's most distinguished and outstanding family of scholars, the Mitsukuri family, and at the centre of Japan's educational system in the Meiji Era . His grandfather had been a student of Dutch studies ( Rangaku ). His father Mitsukuri Shuhei had taught at the Bansho-shirabesho (Institute for investigating Barbarian books). His children were famous scientists, and his grandson Ryokichi Minobe became Governor of Tokyo . SEE ALSO General
Japanese at Cambridge Other Japanese who studied at Cambridge University after Kikuchi: British contemporaries at Cambridge British contemporaries of Kikuchi at Cambridge University:
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