Even Beigium had installed a sinologist in a university before this. At Cambridge, Sir Thomas Wade, who had served as an interpreter and diplomat in China and is famous for the Wade-Giles system of romanization, became professor of Chinese in 1888 after donating a collection of over 650 books to the university.
就是他和繼任者翟理斯共同創造了 Wade-Giles 羅馬拼音法。總的來說，英國在國富民強的帝國巔峰，也只提供過五個漢學教授席而已。