禧在明
禧在明爵士KCMG,CB(英语:Sir Walter Caine Hillier,1849年—1927年11月9日),英国外交官、汉学家。
生于香港,父亲是奚礼尔。曾就读于英国贝德福德学校(Bedford School)和布兰德尔中学(Blundell's School)。毕业后,历任汉文副使、代理汉务参赞、汉务参赞等职。1889年至1896年任英国驻朝鲜总领事。1904年至1908年任伦敦国王学院汉文教授。1908年至1910年,任清政府财政顾问。
著作
- 《语言自迩集》A Progressive Course Designed to Assist the Student of Colloquial Chinese as Spoken in the Capital and the Metropolitan Department (1886), (与威妥玛合著)
- 《华英文义津逮》The Chinese Language and How to Learn It: A Manual for Beginners (1907)
- One Thousand Useful Chinese Characters (1907)
- 《英汉北京方言词典》An English-Chinese Dictionary of Peking Colloquial (1910)
- 《袖珍英汉北京方言词典》English-Chinese Pocket Dictionary of Peking Colloquial (1910)
- Memorandum Upon an Alphabetical System for Writing Chinese: the Application of this System to the Typewriter and to the Linotype or other Typecasting and Composing Machines and its Application to the Braille System for the Blind (1927)
参考文献
- "Death of Sir Walter Hillier," The Times (UK). 11 November 1927, p. 18.
- "The Late Sir Walter Hillier," The Times. 17 November 1927, p. 16.