Lawrence Klindt KENTWELL [1882-????] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Lawrence Klindt KENTWELL [1882-????]

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Submitted by David on Sun, 2013-05-26 10:56
Names
Given: 
Lawrence Klindt
Family: 
Kentwell
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1882-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (country): 
Hong Kong

Date of birth from family tree at:

http://www.sightandsoundkaraoke.com/genealogy/holtTree/getperson.php?personID=P2173651149&tree=holtTree

Brian writes about him at:

http://brianedgar.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/gerald-hornes-race-war-1-the-eurasians/

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Submitted by Doug C on Sun, 2014-02-09 19:52.

Kentwell's full name was Lawrence Klindt Kentwell.  Klindt was his middle name.  He was born in Hong Kong in 1882 to a Chinese mother and British father.  He soon moved to Hawaii with his mother.  

He qualified as a barrister in England in 1916 and soon moved to Shanghai. By the late 1920s he was a shrill Chinese nationalist.  He was disbarred in Shanghai in 1926.

Bernie Wasserstein in Secret War in Shanghai provides a good background to Kentwell. (See a review:

http://edition.cnn.com/books/news/9908/27/shanghai/index.html )

Submitted by David on Mon, 2014-02-10 14:15.

Thanks Doug, I've added in your corrections.