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- Byron Brenan CMG, (7 December 1847 – 28 February 1927), was a British diplomat who served in China from 1866. His last position before retirement was as British Consul General in Shanghai from 1899 to 1901. Brenan had English and Irish ancestry. His second brother worked for Chinese Maritime Customs Service. One of his nephews John Fitzgerald Brenan was also a diplomat who also served as same British Consul General in Shanghai from 1930 to 1937. Brenan joined UK Foreign Office in 1866 and served initially in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhu and Tianjin. He served as consul in Chefoo (now Yantai) from 1883 to 1885, and then served as British consul in Beijing and Tianjin from 1885 to 1893. In June 1886 he went to Hong Kong to represent the British Governmen, on a joint committee on opium and facilitated the signing of regulations on the management of western medicine in Hong Kong. From 1893 to 1898 while serving as the British Consul General in Guangzhou, Brenan had to deal with response to rumours concerning the bubonic plague in Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen's anti-Qing revolutionary movement. Later in 1897, Brenan negotiated with the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Tan Zhonglin about the expansion of Hong Kong, which led to the signing of Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory in 1898. In addition, in 1895, he was appointed by the British Government as a special commissioner to examine the trade situation of the UK in Far East and published in 1897 a "Report on the State of Trade at the Treaty Ports of China". Brenan was appointed as British Consul-General in Shanghai in 1898 and took office in the following year. During his tenure, he assisted in the rescue of Kang Youwei during the 1898 Jiangsu coup. In 1899, he successfully negotiated with the Qing court to expand the total area of Shanghai International Settlement by more than three times its size to 33,503 acres. In order to honor his performance in Shanghai, the Shanghai Municipal Council on his retirement in July 1901, named a new road in the concession Brenan Road (now Changning Road). He continued to pay attention to Chinese affairs after he retired to the UK. He founded the in 1906 and served as honorary secretary. He died in London in 1927, at the age of 79. (en)
- 璧利南，CMG（英語：Byron Brenan，1847年12月7日－1927年2月28日），又作白利南、布利南，英國外交官和「中國通」，1899年至1901年擔任英國駐上海總領事。 璧利南擁有英格蘭和愛爾蘭血統，他的二哥長年任職於大清海關總稅務司署，布廉恩其中三名姪兒子也是外交官出身，包括由1930年至1937年間同樣曾任英國駐滬總領事的璧約翰爵士。璧利南1866年加入外交部，旋獲派駐中國，早年先後於廣州、上海、北京、蕪湖和天津等地任職，其後於1883年至1885年出任煙臺領事，以及在1885年至1893年出任京津領事，任內曾於1886年6月至9月代表英政府前往香港參與一個鴉片聯合委員會會議，促成委員會簽訂《》。 1893年至1898年出任英國駐廣州領事期間，璧利南參與應對內地有關於1894年香港鼠疫的謠言，以及孫中山推動的反清革命運動，後來還於1897年跟兩廣總督譚鍾麟交涉香港拓界事宜，促成《展拓香港界址專條》在1898年簽訂。此外，他任內於1895年獲英政府委任為特別專員，負責考察英國在遠東各地的商貿情況，其後於1897年發表《中國通商口岸貿易狀況報告書》。 璧利南於1898年起署任駐滬總領，翌年實任。任內，他於1898年戊戌政變期間協助營救康有為逃離清廷追捕，並於1899年成功向清廷交涉把上海公共租界的總面積擴大超過三倍至33,503畝。為肯他在上海任內的表現，工部局董事局特於璧利南1901年7月退休的時候，將租界一條新建道路命名為白利南路。璧利南在華任職前後35年，他退休返回英國後繼續關注中國事務，並於1906年創立，擔任名譽秘書，到1926年因健康問題才淡出會務。他於1927年在倫敦病逝，終年79歲。 (zh)
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