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]

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)

1 2 3 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.)
1 2 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.
1 2 3 4 5 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.
1 2 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.

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