Robert Kotewall

Robert Kotewall
Robert Kotewall
Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council
In office 1946
Governor	Cecil Harcourt
Preceded by	John Johnstone Paterson
Succeeded by	Arthur Morse
Personal details
Born	Robert Hormus Kotewall 1880
Died	23 May 1949 British Hong Kong
Spouse(s)	Edith Lowcock[1]
Occupation	Businessman

Robert Kotewall
Traditional Chinese	羅旭龢
Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Lo^4, Juk^1wo^4 Yale Romanization Lòh, Yūk-wòh

Sir Robert Hormus Kotewall CMG (羅旭龢; 1880－1949) was a British Hong Kong businessman, civil servant and legislator.

Kotewall was the son of Hormusjee Rustomjee Kotewall. His ancestry included Chinese, Parsee (as his middle name of Hormus and surname of Kotewall suggests) and European forbears.

In 1913, he was named Clerk to the Magistracy and JP. By 1919, Dr Kotewall was in trade as the manager of the Hong Kong Mercantile Company. In 1923, he was invited to join the Legislative Council as an unofficial member, a position he held until 1935. In 1936, he joined the Executive Council.

His great-grandson is English actor Max Minghella.^[2]

Memory

Robert Kotewall (2nd right) as part of the administration of Geoffry Northcote (centre)

Kotewall Road, in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Island, and Sir Robert Kotewall Hall in the campus of St. Paul's Co-educational College, are named after him. His daughter, Dr. Bobby Kotewall, a teacher, became the principal of St. Paul's Co-educational College.

References

1. http://webb-site.com/dbpub/natperson.asp?p=68246
2. "Max Minghella". ethnicelebs.com. Retrieved 13 November 2013.