禧在明
禧在明爵士KCMG,CB(英語:Sir Walter Caine Hillier,1849年—1927年11月9日),英國外交官、漢學家。
生於香港,父親是奚禮爾。曾就讀於英國貝德福德學校(Bedford School)和布蘭德爾中學(Blundell's School)。畢業後,歷任漢文副使、代理漢務參贊、漢務參贊等職。1889年至1896年任英國駐朝鲜總領事。1904年至1908年任倫敦國王學院漢文教授。1908年至1910年,任清政府財政顧問。
著作
编辑- 《語言自邇集》A Progressive Course Designed to Assist the Student of Colloquial Chinese as Spoken in the Capital and the Metropolitan Department (1886), (與威妥瑪合著)
- 《華英文義津逮》The Chinese Language and How to Learn It: A Manual for Beginners (1907)
- One Thousand Useful Chinese Characters (1907)
- 《英漢北京方言詞典》An English-Chinese Dictionary of Peking Colloquial (1910)
- 《袖珍英漢北京方言詞典》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)
參考文獻
编辑- "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.