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Thomas Francis Wade

1818 - 1895

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Sir Thomas Francis Wade, (25 August 1818 – 31 July 1895) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Francis Wade is the 513th most popular physician (up from 552nd in 2019), the 3,099th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,228th in 2019) and the 46th most popular British Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Thomas Francis Wade ranks 513 out of 726. Before him are Fritz Klein, Carlo Urbani, Ruth Pfau, Kadambini Ganguly, Ernst von Bergmann, and Caspar Peucer. After him are Jean Cruveilhier, Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, Frederic Lewy, Franz Josef Ruprecht, Thomas Erastus, and Emil Zuckerkandl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Thomas Francis Wade ranks 68. Before him are John Henninger Reagan, Eduard Totleben, Louis Faidherbe, Conrad of Parzham, Carl Remigius Fresenius, and Theodor Kullak. After him are Mahmud Nedim Pasha, Ibrahim Edhem Pasha, Mikhail Katkov, José María Castro Madriz, Alexander Dreyschock, and Josip Filipović. Among people deceased in 1895, Thomas Francis Wade ranks 63. Before him are Abu Bakar of Johor, Petko Slaveykov, John Wesley Hardin, Charles Frédéric Girard, Meijer de Haan, and Hayranidil Kadın. After him are Jorge Isaacs, Gustav Spörer, Nikolay Girs, Ludwig Schläfli, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, and Friedrich Tietjen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Francis Wade ranks 3,100 out of 8,785. Before him are Laura Mulvey (1941), Janet Baker (1933), Robin Milner (1934), Ronald Speirs (1920), Philip Stone (1924), and Alex Higgins (1949). After him are Terry Venables (1943), Richard Hammond (1969), David Gray (1968), Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (1640), Alan Cox (1968), and Hermione Baddeley (1906).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Francis Wade ranks 46. Before him are William Turner (1510), Ernest Starling (1866), James Young Simpson (1811), Rutherford Alcock (1809), Richard Bright (1789), and William Hunter (1718). After him are Anthony Carlisle (1768), John Crawfurd (1783), Frederick Twort (1877), John Arbuthnot (1667), Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), and Patrick Steptoe (1913).

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