# List of Consuls-General of the United Kingdom in 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.

## List of Consuls-General
### Consuls, 1842–1880

| Name | Tenure Begin | Tenure End |
| 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 |
| Frederick E. B. Harvey | April 1863 | 6 June 1863 |
| John Markham | 6 June 1863 | March 1865 |
| Charles Alexander Winchester | March 1865 | January 1871 |
| Walter Henry Medhurst | January 1871 | March 1880 |
| Arthur Davenport | January 1877 | March 1880 |

### Consuls-General, 1880–1958

| Name | Tenure Begin | Tenure End |
| Patrick Joseph Hughes | March 1880 | 1 April 1891 |
| Sir Nicholas John Hannen | 1 April 1891 | 13 November 1897 |
| 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 |
| Sir Everard Duncan Home Fraser | July 1911 | 24 August 1922 |
| James William Jamieson | 23 June 1919 | January 1920 |
| Sir Sidney Barton | 24 August 1922 | 21 May 1929 |
| John Fitzgerald Brenan | 21 May 1929 | 14 August 1932 |
| Charles Edward Whitmore | 14 August 1932 | 12 December 1932 |
| Arthur Dickinson Blackburn | 12 December 1932 | 27 March 1933 |
| John Wallace Ord Davidson | 27 March 1933 | 19 December 1933 |
| Sir John Fitzgerald Brenan | 19 December 1933 | 10 September 1935 |
| John Wallace Ord Davidson | 10 September 1935 | 24 September 1937 |
| Sir Herbert Phillips | 24 September 1937 | 17 January 1940 |
| Sir Anthony Hastings George | 17 January 1940 | 8 December 1941 |
| Sir Alwyne Ogden | 8 September 1945 | 21 June 1947 |
| Michael Cavenagh Gillett | 21 June 1947 | 2 November 1948 |
| Robert Urquhart | 2 November 1948 | July 1950 |
| Kenneth Bumstead | 4 July 1950 | 1950 |
| 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 |

### British Consul attached to the Shanghai Overseas Chinese Affairs Commissioner, 1958–1967

| Name | Tenure Begin | Tenure End |
| 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 |
| Douglas Brookfield | June 1964 | July 1966 |
| Peter Hewitt | October 1966 | 24 May 1967 |

### Consuls-General, 1985–present

| Name | Tenure Begin | Tenure End |
| 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 |
| Carma Elliot | December 2006 | January 2011 |
| Brian Davidson | January 2011 | June 2015 |
| John Edwards | June 2015 | June 2019 |
| Chris Wood | July 2019 | June 2023 |
| Matt Burney | September 2023 | |