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. (en)
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. (en)