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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Thomas Francis
| name = Wade
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| honorific_suffix = CB, KCB 1879
| image = File:Wade,_Thomas_Francis.jpg
| birth_date = 1818
| death_date = 1895
| address = Pekin China; 58 Upper Seymour Street Portman Square<br />Peking c/o Foreign Office, SW<br />Pekin, 21 Charles-street, Berkeley-square [1879]
| occupation = diplomacy
| elected_ESL = 1864.02.09
| elected_ASL = 1865.12.05
| elected_AI = 1865
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL, ASL, AI Ordinary Fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
Secretary HM Legation<br />HM Charge d'Affairs<br /><br />
=== 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.<br /><br />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.<br /> • 語言自邇集 Yü-yen tzu-erh chi: a progressive course designed to assist the student of colloquial Chinese, London, 1867.<br /> • 文件自集 Wen-chien tzu-erh chi: a series of papers selected as specimens of documentary Chinese, London, 1867.<br /> • 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 ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = Thomas Francis
| name = Wade
| honorific_prefix = Sir
| honorific_suffix = CB, KCB 1879
| image = File:Wade,_Thomas_Francis.jpg
| birth_date = 1818
| death_date = 1895
| address = Pekin China; 58 Upper Seymour Street Portman Square<br />Peking c/o Foreign Office, SW<br />Pekin, 21 Charles-street, Berkeley-square [1879]
| occupation = diplomacy
| elected_ESL = 1864.02.09
| elected_ASL = 1865.12.05
| elected_AI = 1865
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL, ASL, AI Ordinary Fellow
| left =
| clubs = Athenaeum Club
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
Secretary HM Legation<br />HM Charge d'Affairs<br /><br />
=== 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.<br /><br />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.<br /> • 語言自邇集 Yü-yen tzu-erh chi: a progressive course designed to assist the student of colloquial Chinese, London, 1867.<br /> • 文件自集 Wen-chien tzu-erh chi: a series of papers selected as specimens of documentary Chinese, London, 1867.<br /> • 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 ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
