Thomas Francis Wade
British linguist
Died when: 76 years 340 days (923 months)Star Sign: Virgo
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.
He was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University.
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