Thomas Francis Wade
1818–95
Soldier, diplomat, and Sinologist. Fought with the British army in China in the First Opium War; interpreter, Hong Kong garrison, 1843; Hong Kong supreme court, 1845. Assistant Chinese secretary to the superintendent of trade, 1846. Vice-consul, Shanghai, 1852; Chinese secretary, Hong Kong, 1855; minister-plenipotentiary, Peking (Beijing), 1871; recalled to London, 1882; retired in 1883. First professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge, 1888. Knighted, 1875.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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