His father strongly opposed his wedding a foreigner and a commoner .
Count Hirokichi Mutsu , son of the then Japanese foreign minister Munemitsu Mutsu , while studying at Cambridge fell in love with his landlord 's daughter , Gertrude Ethel Passingham .
son 's father strongly opposed his wedding a foreigner and a commoner .
Count Hirokichi Mutsu , son of the then Japanese foreign minister Munemitsu Mutsu , while studying at Cambridge fell in love with his landlord 's daughter , Gertrude Ethel Passingham .