William Henry Wilkinson

Sir William Henry Wilkinson 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.

Books

Where Chineses Drive: English Student-Life at Peking
: A Celestial on England and Englishmen by Hsiang-fu Yuan
The Game of Khanhoo
A Manual of Chinese Chess
Chinese Origin of Playing Cards
The Corean government: constitutional changes, July 1894 to October 1895. With an appendix on subsequent enactments to 30th June 1896
Bridge Maxims
''Mah-Jongg: a memorandum''

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, 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...."