C. Grenville Alabaster

Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, OBE, QC (1880–1958) was a British lawyer who served as Attorney General of Hong Kong in the 1930s.

A newspaper of the time when describing him mentioned his "consummate skill", "very few young men have commanded the admiration of so many intelligent people" and "he is a young man of great intellectual distinction and is endowed with a judgement of rare clearness and sagacity"[3] While in London he served as secretary of the China Association.

In September 1913, he was admitted to practice before the British Supreme Court for China in Shanghai in a hearing whereby special dispensation he was allowed not to be present.

Alabaster said that as a result of the war he has lost "furniture, household goods, silver, cutlery, glass, carpets, pictures, clothes, bedding ... jewelry, motor car, wireless set, masonic regalia etc ... all looted by the Japanese.

A family postcard described his condition post-war: "Sir Grenville came to lunch on Sunday – he was almost blind by then, probably partly to do with deprivation when in prison camp (Japanese).