Chaloner Alabaster

Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster KCMG (1838–1898) was an English administrator in China.

[1] In 1855, he went to China as a student interpreter, remaining there during the Second Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion.

Between 1869 and 1873, he was British Vice-Consul in Shanghai and subsequently became Consul General at Hankow, Wuhan from 1880 to 1886 then at Canton from 1886 until 1891.

[2] His son, also called Chaloner Grenville Alabaster became Attorney General in Hong Kong from 1930 to 1945.

[5] Papers relating to his official work in China are held at SOAS Archives.