William Henry Wilkinson
Sir William Henry Wilkinson (traditional Chinese: 務謹順, simplified Chinese: 务谨顺; May 10, 1858[1] - 1930) was a British Sinologist who served as Consul-General for H.B.M in China and Korea. He was also a playing card collector and card game enthusiast.
British Diplomatic Service
| ?-1893 | Consul at Swatow[2][3] |
| 1893-94 | Acting Consul-General at Seoul[1][4] |
| 1894-97 | Acting Vice-Consul at Chemulpo[1][4] |
| 1900-01 | Consul at Ningpo[5] |
| 1901-02 | Acting Consul at Wenchow[5] |
| 1902-09 | Consul-General at Kunming and Szemao[5] |
| 1909-11 | Consul-General at Chengtu[5] |
| 1911-12 | Consul-General at Mukden[5][6] |
| 1912-17 | Consul-General at Hankow[6][7] |
Books
- The Game of Khanhoo (London, 1891)
- A Manual of Chinese Chess (Shanghai, 1893)
- Chinese Origin of Playing Cards (1895)
- The Corean government: constitutional changes, July 1894 to October 1895. With an appendix on subsequent enactments to 30th June 1896 (1896)
- Bridge Maxims (1918)
- Mah-Jongg: a memorandum (1925)
References
- ^ a b c The Foreign Office list and diplomatic and consular year book for 1917, Foreign Office, Great Britain.
- ^ Stewart Culin (1893), Exhibition of Games in the Columbian Exposition, Journal of American Folklore, 6(22): 205-227.
- ^ Hubert Howe Bancroft (1893), The Book of the Fair: an Historical and Descriptive Presentation of the World's Science, Art, and Industry, as Viewed through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, The Bancroft Company, Publishers, Chicago. (Relevant excerpt here.)
- ^ a b Horace N. Allen (1901), A Chronological Index: Some of the Chief Events in the Foreign Intercourse of Korea From the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Twentieth Century, pp.53-54.
- ^ a b c d e 清季中外使領年表(“Chronological list of Chinese and foreign consular officers for late Qing dynasty”), 中華書局 (Zhonghua Book Company), Beijing, 1985.
- ^ a b George Ernest Morrison, The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison: 1895-1912, pg. 624, Cambridge University Press (1976), ISBN 0-521-20486-0
- ^ The China Year Book, 1913.
External links
- Elliot Avedon Virtual Museum of Games: W.H. Wilkinson. University of Waterloo
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