Konni Zilliacus (senior)
Konrad Viktor Zilliacus was a Finnish independence activist involved in the Grafton Affair in 1905.
Zilliacus was born in Finland, then part of the Russian Empire. He studied law and then became a newspaper reporter, in which capacity he travelled the world, living for a period in Costa Rica, then in Chicago. He lived from 18941896 in Japan when his son Konni Zilliacus was born in Kobe followed by Egypt and Paris. He returned to Finland in 1898, and submitted a petition to Tsar Nicholas II in 1899 demanding a constitution. He subsequently relocated to Stockholm in Sweden in 1900, where he began to publish a newspaper Fria Ord which supported independence for Finland.
Source: Wikipedia