WADE. Sir THOMAS FRANCIS ( 1S1S-95). A British diplomat, born in London. He was edu cated at Harrow, and a year after matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the army (1838). Promoted lieutenant, lie went to Hong Kong, becoming regimental interpreter in Chinese (1842); and he took part in the attack on Chinkiang, and in the operations near Nan king during the Opium War. In 1853 Ile was ap pointed vice-consul at Shanghai, and was chief of the commission that established the customs ad ministration which developed into the Imperial :Maritime Customs Service. He was attached to Lord Elgin's mission in 1857, and negotiated the treaty of Tientsin (1858). TIe assisted in es tablishing the legation at Peking (1861), where, after experience AS chargil d'affaires, in which capacity he conducted the difficult negotiations arising from the Tientsin massacre of 1870, he became Minister in 1871. Largely through his
effort. audience to Ministers was granted IT the Emperor Tinigchill in 1873. As a result of the murder of A. R. Nargary in Yumnan, he ne gotiated with Li Hung Chang the Chifu conven tion of 1876. Made C. 11. in 1862, Wade was ad vaneed N. C. B. in 1883, and retired. In 1.888 he was appointed first professor of Chinese at Cambridge. Among his publications, which in clude several valuable books for the study of Chinese, are : The Ilsin Ching Ln, or Book of Experiments (1859); Ireneltien Tni•erh this (1867), dealing with documentary Chinese; and Tzu-erh Chi (1867; enlarged 1886), a progreQsive course in Ihr colloquial Peking va riety of the Mandarin dialect. Wade lafqneathed his large Chinese library to Cambridge Univer sity.