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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 ...
In January 2011 was promoted to be Consul General in Shanghai. [1] In December 2013, Davidson officiated during an official visit to Shanghai by Royal Navy ship HMS Daring and assisted in the rediscovery of the graves of four members of the Royal Ulster Rifles who were killed by Japanese aerial attacks on Shanghai in 1937. [3] [4]
After the war, the Consulate-General returned to the site and remained until 1949 when Britain withdrew its consular staff with the communist occupation of Shanghai. The consulate re-opened in 1954 and was closed again in 1967 during the Cultural Revolution.
Christopher Terence Wood CMG (19 January 1959 [1]) is a retired British diplomat who served latterly as the British Consul General to Shanghai (2019-2023). His previous assignments included Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to China (2016-19), Representative, British Office Taipei from 2013 to 2016, Minister, British Embassy Beijing (2008–2012), Director for the Americas, Foreign and ...
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Pages in category "Consuls-General of the United Kingdom in Shanghai" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In August 1940 he was appointed British Consul-General in Shanghai. [9] Shanghai was a tenuous posting, involving managing the British government's approach to the Shanghai Municipal Council as well as increasingly difficult relations with the Japanese who had occupied the Chinese city in since 1937. Most British troops defending the settlement ...
In Shanghai, the court was housed in the British Consulate compound. From 1865 to 1871 cases were heard using the rooms that had been used by the consular court. In 1871 a dedicated court building to stand at the back of the consulate building facing on to Yuanmingyuan Road was opened.