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 the United Kingdom in China and Korea. He was also a playing card collector and card game enthusiast.

British Diplomatic Service

?-1893Consul at Shantou[2][3]
1893-94Acting Consul-General at Seoul[1][4]
1894-97Acting Vice-Consul at Chemulpo[1][4]
1900-01Consul at Ningbo[5]
1901-02Acting Consul at Wenzhou[5]
1902-09Consul-General at Kunming and Simao, for Yunnan and Guizhou[5][6]
1909-11Consul-General at Chengdu[5]
1911-12Consul-General at Mukden[5][7]
1912-17Consul-General at Hankou[7][8]

Books

  • Where Chineses Drive: English Student-Life at Peking (London, 1885)[9]
  • "Those Foreign Devils!": A Celestial on England and Englishmen by Hsiang-fu Yuan (translated by Wilkinson; London and New York, 1891)
  • 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)

His Collection of Playing Cards

Cards from Wilkinson's collection are now in the British Museum, and are referred to in [https://archive.org/details/aen4312.0001.001.umich.edu Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the Trustees of the British museum by the late Lady [[Charlotte Schreiber]] by British Museum]] by Freeman M. O'Donoghue (1901), pp. 184–185: "Chinese - Collection of modern packs acquired by the testator from Mr. W.H. Wilkinson of H.M. Consular Service, who has kindly furnished the following information: 'The packs contained in this collection were procured during the year 1889-90 from Guangzhou, Shantou, and Fuzhou in South China, from Ningbo and Shanghai on the central sea-board, from Beijing in the north, from Jiujiang and Yichang in mid- China, and from Chongqing in the far west...."[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. ↑ "No. 27473". The London Gazette. 12 September 1902. p. 5887.
  7. 1 2 George Ernest Morrison, The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison: 1895-1912, pg. 624, Cambridge University Press (1976), ISBN 0-521-20486-0
  8. ↑ The China Year Book, 1913.
  9. ↑ Yüan, Hsiang-fu (1891). "Those Foreign Devils!": A Celestial on England and Englishmen. Leadenhall Press.
  10. ↑ Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the Trustees of the British museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber by British Museum. Dept. of prints and drawings; O'Donoghue, Freeman M. (Freeman Marius) (1901), pp. 184-194.
  • Elliot Avedon Virtual Museum of Games: W.H. Wilkinson. University of Waterloo


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