William Henry Wilkinson

Sir William Henry Wilkinson (traditional Chinese: 務謹順, simplified Chinese: 务谨顺; May 10, 1858 – 1930) was a British sinologist who served as Consul-General for the United Kingdom in China and Korea. He was also a playing card collector and card game enthusiast.

British Diplomatic Service

Books Where Chineses Drive: English Student-Life at Peking (London, 1885) "Those Foreign Devils!": A Celestial on England and Englishmen by Hsiang-fu Yuan (translated by Wilkinson; London and New York, 1891) The Game of Khanhoo (London, 1891) A Manual of Chinese Chess (Shanghai, 1893) Chinese Origin of Playing Cards (1895) The Corean government: constitutional changes, July 1894 to October 1895. With an appendix on subsequent enactments to 30th June 1896 (1896) Bridge Maxims (1918) Mah-Jongg: a memorandum (1925)

His Collection of Playing Cards Cards from Wilkinson's collection are now in the British Museum, and are referred to in [https://archive.org/details/aen4312.0001.001.umich.edu Catalogue of the collection of playing cards bequeathed to the Trustees of the British museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber by British Museum by Freeman M. O'Donoghue (1901), pp. 184–185: "Chinese – Collection of modern packs acquired by the testator from Mr. W.H. Wilkinson of H.M. Consular Service, who has kindly furnished the following information: The packs contained in this collection were procured during the year 1889–90 from Guangzhou, Shantou, and Fuzhou in South China, from Ningbo and Shanghai on the central sea-board, from Beijing in the north, from Jiujiang and Yichang in mid- China, and from Chongqing in the far west...."