Thomas Francis Wade

His Excellency Sir Thomas Francis Wade CB, KCB 1879
Born	1818
Died	1895
Residence	Pekin China; 58 Upper Seymour Street Portman Square Peking c/o Foreign Office, SW c/o R.B. Wade, 13 Seymour St, W. [1875] Pekin, 21 Charles-street, Berkeley-square [1879] Pekin, 13 Seymour Street, W [1881]
Occupation	diplomacy
Society Membership membership ESL, ASL, AI Ordinary Fellow left 1884.01.08 resigned elected_ESL 1864.02.09 elected_AI 1865 elected_ASL 1865.12.05 clubs Athenaeum Club

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Notes From Elsewhere

Sir Thomas Francis Wade (simplified Chinese: 威妥玛; traditional Chinese: 威妥瑪; pinyin: Wēi Tuǒmǎ), GCMG, KCB (25 August 1818 – 31 July 1895), was a British diplomat and Sinologist who produced the first Chinese textbook in English in 1867[1] that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization system for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892.

Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1868

Publications

External Publications

• The Peking Syllabary; being a collection of the characters representing the dialect of Peking; arranged after a new orthography in syllabic classes, according to the four tones. Designed to accompany the Hsin Ching Lu, or Book of Experiments, (Hong Kong), 1859.
• 語言自邇集 Yü-yen tzu-erh chi: a progressive course designed to assist the student of colloquial Chinese, London, 1867.
• 文件自集 Wen-chien tzu-erh chi: a series of papers selected as specimens of documentary Chinese, London, 1867.
• 漢字習寫法 Han-tzu hsi-hsieh fa: a set of writing exercises, designed to accompany the colloquial series of the tzu-erh chi, London, 1867. •

House Publications

On the Chinese notation of time Read 12 may 1868 TES vii 210-214 9 June 1868