Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetCharles Henry Brewitt-Taylor
sinologist
Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1857
Date of Death: 04-Mar-1938
Profession: translator
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor
- Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor (1857–1938) was a long time official in the Imperial Maritime Customs Service in China and a sinologist best known for his translation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San guo zhi yan'yi), published in 1925, the first of China's classical novels to have a complete translation into English. Brewitt-Taylor was born 11 December 1857, Kingston, Sussex and died 4 March 1938 at the age of eighty, in his house, Cathay, in Earlsferry, Fife.
- Married Alice Mary Vale in 1880, who died in 1891.
- The couple had two sons, Raymond, who was killed as a member of the Field Ambulance Service in World War I, and Leonard, who died in 1933 from a cancerous blood condition.
- Brewitt-Taylor remarried in 1891 to Ann Michie.
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