List of consuls-general of the United Kingdom in Shanghai

Consul-General of the United Kingdom in Shanghai
Consul-General of the United Kingdom in Shanghai
	Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom
	Incumbent; Matt Burney; since September 2023
Style	His Excellency
Residence	Shanghai
Inaugural holder	George Balfour
Formation	1 December 1842
Website	British Consulate-General Shanghai

The consul-general from the United Kingdom in Shanghai is the United Kingdom's diplomatic representative within the city of Shanghai in China. From 1842 to 1949 the consul-general's office and residence was located in the British Consulate General in Shanghai on the Bund; from 1985 to 2014 in the Shanghai Centre on Nanjing West Road; and from December 2014 in the new British Centre on West Beijing Road.^[1]

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Name	Tenure begin	Tenure end	Notes
George Balfour	1 December 1842	7 October 1846
Rutherford Alcock	7 October 1846	May 1854
Sir Daniel Brooke Robertson	May 1854	December 1858
Sir Harry Smith Parkes	December 1858	March 1865
Thomas Taylor Meadows	23 July 1859	April 1863	^{[note 1]}
Frederick E. B. Harvey	April 1863	6 June 1863	^{[note 1]}
John Markham	6 June 1863	March 1865	^{[note 1]}
Charles Alexander Winchester	March 1865	January 1871
Walter Henry Medhurst	January 1871	March 1880	^{[note 2]}
Arthur Davenport	January 1877	March 1880	^{[note 1]}

Name	Tenure begin	Tenure end	Notes
Patrick Joseph Hughes	March 1880	1 April 1891
Sir Nicholas John Hannen	1 April 1891	13 November 1897	^{[note 3]}
George Jamieson	13 November 1897	13 May 1899
Byron Brenan	13 May 1899	1 July 1901
Sir Pelham Laird Warren	1 July 1901	January 1911	^[2]
Sir Everard Duncan Home Fraser	July 1911	24 August 1922
James William Jamieson	23 June 1919	January 1920	^{[note 4]}
Sir Sidney Barton	24 August 1922	21 May 1929
John Fitzgerald Brenan	21 May 1929	14 August 1932	^[3]
Charles Edward Whitmore	14 August 1932	12 December 1932	^{[note 4]}
Arthur Dickinson Blackburn	12 December 1932	27 March 1933	^{[note 4]}^[4]
John Wallace Ord Davidson	27 March 1933	19 December 1933	^{[note 4]}
Sir John Fitzgerald Brenan	19 December 1933	10 September 1935
John Wallace Ord Davidson	10 September 1935	24 September 1937	^{[note 4]}
Sir Herbert Phillips	24 September 1937	17 January 1940	^[5]
Sir Anthony Hastings George	17 January 1940	8 December 1941	^{[note 5]}^[6]
Sir Alwyne Ogden	8 September 1945	21 June 1947	^[7]
Michael Cavenagh Gillett	21 June 1947	2 November 1948	^[8]
Robert Urquhart	2 November 1948	July 1950	^[9]
Kenneth Bumstead	4 July 1950	1950	^[10]
Scott Burdett	1950	1951
John Coghill	1951	1952
Allan Veitch	1952	September 1954
Frederick Garner	September 1954	July 1956
Ayrton John Seaton Pullan	July 1956	May 1958

Name	Tenure begin	Tenure end	Notes
Harry Wright	June 1958	July 1960
Frank Chatterton Butler	July 1960	February 1962
Brian Stewart	February 1962	July 1962
Douglas Spankie	4 July 1962	June 1964	^[11]
Douglas Brookfield	June 1964	July 1966
Peter Hewitt	October 1966	24 May 1967	^[12]

Name	Tenure begin	Tenure end	Notes
Trevor Mound	March 1985	June 1987
Iain Orr	June 1987	December 1990
John Macdonald	December 1990	1994
Simon Featherstone	1994	1996
Warren Townend	1996	2000
Paul Raymond Sizeland	2000	July 2003
Sue Bishop	July 2003	December 2006	^[13]
Carma Elliot	December 2006	January 2011	^[14]
Brian Davidson	January 2011	June 2015	^[15]
John Edwards	June 2015	June 2019	^[16]
Chris Wood	July 2019	June 2023
Matt Burney	September 2023		^[17]

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