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

?-1893Consul at Swatow[2][3]
1893-94Acting Consul-General at Seoul[1][4]
1894-97Acting Vice-Consul at Chemulpo[1][4]
1900-01Consul at Ningpo[5]
1901-02Acting Consul at Wenchow[5]
1902-09Consul-General at Kunming and Szemao[5]
1909-11Consul-General at Chengtu[5]
1911-12Consul-General at Mukden[5][6]
1912-17Consul-General at Hankow[6][7]

Books

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Foreign Office list and diplomatic and consular year book for 1917, Foreign Office, Great Britain.
  2. Stewart Culin (1893), Exhibition of Games in the Columbian Exposition, Journal of American Folklore, 6(22): 205-227.
  3. 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.)
  4. 4.0 4.1 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.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 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.
  6. 6.0 6.1 George Ernest Morrison, The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison: 1895-1912, pg. 624, Cambridge University Press (1976), ISBN 0-521-20486-0
  7. The China Year Book, 1913.

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