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