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

For the British trade union leader, see William Henry Wilkinson (trade unionist).

British Diplomatic Service
?-1893Consul at Swatow[2][3]
1893-94Acting Consul-General at Seoul[1][4]
1894-97Acting Vice-Consul at Chemulpo[1][4]
1900-01Consul at Ningpo[5]
1901-02Acting Consul at Wenchow[5]
1902-09Consul-General at Kunming and Szemao, for Yunnan and Kweichow[5][6]
1909-11Consul-General at Chengtu[5]
1911-12Consul-General at Mukden[5][7]
1912-17Consul-General at Hankow[7][8]

Books
  • 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 Canton, Swatow, and Foochow in South China, from Ningbo and Shanghai on the central sea-board, from Peking in the north, from Kiukiang and Yichang in mid- China, and from Chungking in the far west...."[9]

References
  1. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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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