Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Lou Yu-tao

Mr. Y. T. Lou

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(Lou Yu-tao)

Mr. Y. T. Lou was born at Shaoshing, Chekiang Province, in 1880. Since his youth he came to North China where his father was a very famous official who had been chief secretary to many Viceroys of Chihli including Yuan Shih-kai. Mr. Lou entered the Peking Government University in 1891 and graduated from there in 1900. In 1902 he attended the Anglo-Chinese College, Tientsin. He arrived in America in March 1903 partly as Attache to the Chinese Minister at Washington, D. C., and partly to study. Mr. Lou studied in the Oahu College unntil 1908. Then he went to study law at Yale University where he graduated with the degree of B. C. L. in 1911. In September that year he returned to China. From 1912 to 1913 Mr. Lou was Legal Advisor to the late Feng Kuo-chang who was then Tutuh of Chihli. During 1914-1915 he was in America as Provincial Delegate of Chihli of the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Mr. Lou has been and is still Secretary to Director-General of the Kailan Mining Administration since 1912; Legal Advisor to General Chi Hsieh-yuan of Kiangsu since April 1923; and Councillor of the Ministry of Communications since 1923. Mr. Lou has been awarded by the Peking government the Fourth Order of Chiaho. His address is 13 Ta Ching Lu, Hopei, Tientsin.