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William Crossman
克罗斯曼
Treasury surveyor sent to Shanghai in 1866 to oversee British consular buildings; the gazetteer credits 克罗斯曼 as co-designer of the 1873 consulate.
William Crossman (克罗斯曼) was a Royal Engineers surveyor sent to Shanghai by the British Treasury in 1866 to oversee consular buildings. He left China in 1869, and his assistant Robert Boyce took over the works office. That the gazetteer’s 克罗斯曼 is the same man is an inference from the sources, not something they state.
Places
Building· 1872–1873
Former British Consulate-General
原英国驻沪总领事馆Yuán Yīngguó Zhù Hù Zǒnglǐngshìguǎn
The Bund's oldest surviving Western-style building: the British consulate rebuilt in 1872-73 after a fire, now an exhibition venue (Bund Origin No. 1).
Sources
- 1.China: Consular Building History 1866-1876, Room for Diplomacy — https://roomfordiplomacy.com/history-of-british-consular-buildings-in-china-1966-1976/website
- 2.Shanghai Famous Buildings Gazetteer: the British Consulate building (node 108935; read from a Wayback snapshot of the legacy page userobject1ai108935) (上海名建筑志 · 欧美风情的沪滨广厦 · 中英外交的历史见证：典雅秀美的英国领事馆楼), 上海市地方志办公室, 2009 — https://szfz.shtong.gov.cn/difangzhi-front/book/detailNew?oneId=1&bookId=81772&parentNodeId=81784&nodeId=108935&type=-1gazetteer