Background
General Hu En-kuang was born at Tianjin in 1874.
Government and military official
General Hu En-kuang was born at Tianjin in 1874.
General Hu graduated from the Peiyang Military School.
At different times Mr. Hu held the following positions: Teacher of the Military School at Suiyuan; Commander of a Mixed Regiment at Suiyuan; Director of the Suiyuan Military School; Director of the Suiyuan Police Administration; Director of the First Military Middle School at Chingho; Director of the Pao-ting Arsenal; Director of the Marshal Court for Fukien Province; Commander of the Right Wing of the Fukien Troops; Councillor to the Tu-chun of Fukien; Military Representative in Peking for the Tuchun of Fukien; Member of the Councillors’ Hall of the Ministry of War; Councillor to the Military Administrator of Jiangsi; Director of the Department of Ammunitions in the Ministry of War; Director of the General Affairs Department in the Ministry of War. General Hu was appointed to the last mentioned position in January 1924.
General Hu was a Lieutenant General in rank and was awarded the Fifth Order of Merit, the First Class Tashou Chiaho, the Second Class Wenfu, the Second Class Tashou Paokuang Chiaho and the Second Class Tashou Chiaho.
