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Sir Thomas Francis Wade, GCMG KCB (25 August 1818 – 31 July 1895) was a British diplomat and sinologist who produced an early Chinese textbook in English, in 1867, that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization system for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892.
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Sir Thomas Francis Wade (born Aug. 25, 1818, London, Eng.—died July 31, 1895, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was a British diplomatist and Sinologist who developed the famous Wade-Giles system of romanizing the Chinese language.
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Minister to Peking: Sir Thomas Francis Wade During the forty-one years he spent in China, writes Gerald Morgan, Thomas Francis Wade learned to understand the Chinese mind and culture without being absorbed by it.
THOMAS FRANCIS WADE. Sir THOMAS FRANCIS WADE, G. C. M. G., K. C. B., etc. - It is some twenty five years ago that I first met Sir - he was then Mr. - Thomas Wade: he had come down to Shang-hai from Peking, where he was Charge d'Affaires, and was staying on business at the British Consulate. I was then Honorary.
SIR THOMAS FRANCIS WADE (1818-1895), British diplomatist, born in London on the 25th of August 1818, was the son of Major Wade of the Black Watch, by his wife Anne, daughter of William Smythe of Barbavilla, Westmeath. In 1838 his father purchased for him a commission in the 81st Regiment.
Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818-1895) was born in London on 25 August 1818, son of Major (later Colonel) Thomas Wade (d. 1846). He lived in Mauritius, 1823-1827, and in the Cape, 1829-1832, before returning to England and attending Harrow, 1832-1837.
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