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The new international encyclopaedia . en-tsin (1S5S). He assisted in es-tablishing the legation at Peking (1801), where,after experience as charge daffaires, in whichcapacity he conducted the difficult negotiationsarising from the Tientsin massacre of 1870, hebecame Minister in 1871. Largely through hiseflort. audience to Ministers was granted by theEmperor Tungchih in 1873. As a result ofthe murder of A. R. Margary in Yun-nan, he ne-gotiated with Li Hung Chang the Chifu conven-tion of 1870. Made C. B. in 1802, Wade was ad-vanced K. C. B. in , and retired. In 1888he was appointed first ji
The new international encyclopaedia . en-tsin (1S5S). He assisted in es-tablishing the legation at Peking (1801), where,after experience as charge daffaires, in whichcapacity he conducted the difficult negotiationsarising from the Tientsin massacre of 1870, hebecame Minister in 1871. Largely through hiseflort. audience to Ministers was granted by theEmperor Tungchih in 1873. As a result ofthe murder of A. R. Margary in Yun-nan, he ne-gotiated with Li Hung Chang the Chifu conven-tion of 1870. Made C. B. in 1802, Wade was ad-vanced K. C. B. in , and retired. In 1888he was appointed first jirofessnr of Chinese atCambridge. Among his publications, whiili in-clude several valuable books for the study ofChinese, are : The Jlsin Chinr; Ln. or Book ofExperiments (1859); Weiieliien Tru-erh Chi(1807), dealing with documentary Chinese: andVii-yrn Tzu-erh Chi (1807: enharged 1880), ajirogressive course in the colloquial Peking vn-ri<ty of the Mandarin dialect. Wade bequeathedhis large Chinese library to Cambridge WADHAM. 237 WAECHTEB. WADHAM (wodi/m) COLLEGE. A mllpfioat (Ixloitl, Eiifiland. It was lounclcd liy NicholasWadluini, of JMcrifiold, fSusscx, and Dorothy, hiswife. daiillc<;e. Sir Nicholas dyingin l(iOi), his plan was carried out by his site and ruins of the old priory of the AustinFriars were purchased, aM<l the buildinji of thecolleire was begun in 1(110, the society beingfounded by letters patent from James I., in1(J12. The original foundation was for a warden,fifteen fellows, fifteen scholars, two chaplains,and two clerks. In 1S82 therc^ was a change inIhe statutes, which provided for a warden, eightfellows, several honorary fellows, two chaplains,college officers, a number of lecturers, eighteenscholars, and some one lumdred undergraduatesin all. The buildings, dating from the seven-teenth century, are very attractive, though notspecially remarkable. The garden is one of themost pleasant in Oxford
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