Chaloner Alabaster

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

He was born Barcombe, Bournemouth, and attended King's College London. In 1855, he went to China as a student interpreter remaining there during the First and Second Opium Wars 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. He retired in 1892 and received a knighthood. He died in 1898.^[1]

In 1875, Chaloner married Laura, daughter of Dr. D. J. MacGowan of New York. He was also a freemason.^[2]

His son, also called Chaloner Grenville Alabaster became Attorney General in Hong Kong from 1930 to 1941.

References

1. ^ Entry concerning papers held at School of Oriental and African Studies
2. ^ Freemasonry in China

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Name	Alabaster, Chaloner
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Date of birth	1838
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Date of death	1898
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