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Alabaster, Chaloner Grenville (1838-1898)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Chaloner Grenville
Last name
Alabaster
Initials
C.G.
Life Dates
1838 - 1898
Collecting Dates
1890 -
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM
Countries
Chinese region: China
Associate(s)
Alabaster, H. (-1884) (brother)
Hance, Henry Fletcher (1827-1886) (specimens to)
Hance, Henry Fletcher (1827-1886) (specimens to)
Biography
British diplomat from Barcombe in Bournemouth who was educated at King's College London and went to China as a student interpreter (1855) attached to the Superintendency of Trade at Hongkong. He served through the Opium wars and the Taiping Rebellion and was successively posted to most of the British Consulates in China, later being appointed Vice-Consul (1869-1873) and later Acting Consul-General at Shanghai (1885) and was subsequently Consul General at Hankow (Wuhan, 1880-1886) and Canton (1886-1891). He was knighted in 1892 and retired the same year to Bournemouth.
His brother Henry Alabaster was an emissary to King Rama, the King of Siam, during the reign of Queen Victoria. He settled in Thailand, publishing on Buddhism, and was appointed Director of the Royal Museum and Garden in Thailand from where he sent plants to Kew. Chaloner's son later became Attorney General in Hong Kong. During his consular career, Chaloner Alabaster collected Chinese plant specimens for fellow diplomat H.F. Hance whose herbarium was acquired by BM in 1887.
His brother Henry Alabaster was an emissary to King Rama, the King of Siam, during the reign of Queen Victoria. He settled in Thailand, publishing on Buddhism, and was appointed Director of the Royal Museum and Garden in Thailand from where he sent plants to Kew. Chaloner's son later became Attorney General in Hong Kong. During his consular career, Chaloner Alabaster collected Chinese plant specimens for fellow diplomat H.F. Hance whose herbarium was acquired by BM in 1887.
References
Desmond, R., Dict. Brit. Irish Bot. Hortic., ed. 2 (1994): 8;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Chaloner Grenville
Last name
Alabaster
Initials
C.G.
Life Dates
1838 - 1898
Collecting Dates
1890 -
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM
Countries
Chinese region: China
Associate(s)
Alabaster, H. (-1884) (brother)
Hance, Henry Fletcher (1827-1886) (specimens to)
Hance, Henry Fletcher (1827-1886) (specimens to)
Biography
British diplomat from Barcombe in Bournemouth who was educated at King's College London and went to China as a student interpreter (1855) attached to the Superintendency of Trade at Hongkong. He served through the Opium wars and the Taiping Rebellion and was successively posted to most of the British Consulates in China, later being appointed Vice-Consul (1869-1873) and later Acting Consul-General at Shanghai (1885) and was subsequently Consul General at Hankow (Wuhan, 1880-1886) and Canton (1886-1891). He was knighted in 1892 and retired the same year to Bournemouth.
His brother Henry Alabaster was an emissary to King Rama, the King of Siam, during the reign of Queen Victoria. He settled in Thailand, publishing on Buddhism, and was appointed Director of the Royal Museum and Garden in Thailand from where he sent plants to Kew. Chaloner's son later became Attorney General in Hong Kong. During his consular career, Chaloner Alabaster collected Chinese plant specimens for fellow diplomat H.F. Hance whose herbarium was acquired by BM in 1887.
His brother Henry Alabaster was an emissary to King Rama, the King of Siam, during the reign of Queen Victoria. He settled in Thailand, publishing on Buddhism, and was appointed Director of the Royal Museum and Garden in Thailand from where he sent plants to Kew. Chaloner's son later became Attorney General in Hong Kong. During his consular career, Chaloner Alabaster collected Chinese plant specimens for fellow diplomat H.F. Hance whose herbarium was acquired by BM in 1887.
References
Desmond, R., Dict. Brit. Irish Bot. Hortic., ed. 2 (1994): 8;
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