# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-francis-wade
# Generated: 2026-09-08T00:05:53.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-francis-wade"
name: "Thomas Francis Wade"
slug: "thomas-francis-wade"
description: "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. He was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University."
tagline: "British linguist (1818–1895)"
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birthDate: "1818-08-25"
deathDate: "1895-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump