W. S. Pakenham-Walsh

William Sandford Pakenham-Walsh (; Pinyin: Wàn Báwén; Foochow Romanized: Uâng Bĕk-ùng; 1868 – April 26, 1960) was a Christian clergyman, educationalist and writer. He was most famous for his work Tudor Story.

Life Pakenham-Walsh Tower of Foochow Trinity College, erected in 1925. It is on the campus of Fuzhou Foreign Language School today. W. S. Pakenham-Walsh was born in 1868 into a distinguished Irish clerical family. His middle name, Sandford, was given to him by his father, William Pakenham Walsh who served as curate and later Rector of Sandford Parish in Dublin.

In 1897, W. S. Pakenham-Walsh went to China under the auspices of CMS to work with the Dublin University Fukien Mission as Chaplain to the British community in Fuzhou, W. S. Pakenham-Walsh retired in 1919, but he remained in China until 1921. and also a keen scholar and educationalist.

Sulgrave Billiard Club in the 1930s. Rev. Pakenham-Walsh was seated in the front row second from right W. S. Pakenham-Walsh's most notable work is his Tudor Story that he completed at age 90. His strong interest in Anne Boleyn began in 1917 during his missionary trip in Fuzhou, when he found in the Fuzhou British Community Library books related to Anne Boleyn's life.

W. S. Pakenham-Walsh died on 26 April 1960.

Selected works Some Typical Christians of South China (1905) Nestorius and the Nestorian Mission in China (1908) Chants in War (1916) Anne Boleyn: or, The queen of May – A Play in Four Acts (1921) Three Medical Missionaries: in Memoriam (1922) The Church of St. James, Sulgrave (Notes on Famous Churches and Abbeys) (1925) Fifty Miles Around Sulgrave (1929) Through Cloud and Sunshine (1932) Twenty Years in China (1935) A Tudor Story: The Return of Anne Boleyn (1963),