Lawrence Klindt KENTWELL [1882-????]

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Names
Given
Lawrence Klindt
Family
Kentwell
Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Born
Date
(Day & Month are approximate.)
Birthplace (country)
Hong Kong

Comments

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 )