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Noun Named Entity
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Thomas Francis Wade
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Sir Thomas Francis Wade, 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. Wikipedia
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Homo sapiens
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
EN
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Nordisk Familjebok
EDUCATED AT
Harrow school
Trinity College
EMPLOYER
EN
Cambridge University
FAMILY NAME
Wade
GIVEN NAME
Thomas
MEMBER OF
EN
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
MILITARY BRANCH
EN
British Army
NOTABLE WORK
Wade-giles
OCCUPATION
EN
diplomat
EN
linguist
EN
sinologist
PLACE OF BIRTH
ꠟꠘ꠆ꠒꠘ
PLACE OF DEATH
Cambridge
SEX OR GENDER
EN
male
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Thomas Francis Wade

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