Background
Kotewall was the son of Hormusjee Rustomjee Kotewall.
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executive legislator civil servant
Kotewall was the son of Hormusjee Rustomjee Kotewall.
The University of Hong Kong.
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 Justice of the Peace. By 1919, Doctor 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. Kotewall Road, in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong Island, and Sir Robert Kotewall Hall in the campus of Saint Paul"s Company-educational College, are named after him.