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{{Short description|Hong Kong businessman and comprador}}
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'''Lo Chung Wan''' ({{lang-zh|t=盧仲雲|p=Lo Chung Wan}}; 1879 – 1965) was a prominent Hong Kong businessman and comprador for the [[Netherlands Trading Society]], which eventually became [[ABN AMRO|ABN Amro]]<ref>{{cite web |title=盧仲雲 |url=https://baike.baidu.hk/item/%E7%9B%A7%E4%BB%B2%E9%9B%B2/4366653 |website=百度百科}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=香港華人名人史略（一九三七）(中英合璧)The Prominent Chinese in Hong Kong(1937) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9NmRDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22lo+chung+wan%22&pg=PA58 |publisher=獨立作家－心一堂 |language=en |date=16 April 2019| isbn=978-988-8582-65-5 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jhin |first1=Angela |title=History of my Grandfather Lo Chung Wan |isbn=9781715304041}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=白手興家──香港家族與社會1841-1941 |date=11 July 2016 |publisher=中華書局(香港)有限公司 |isbn=9789888420230}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Prominent Chinese in Hong Kong (1937) |date=16 April 2019 |publisher=Sunyata |isbn=9789888582655}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lo, Chung-Wan 盧仲雲先生 |url=https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/jd472z571#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-1223%2C-56%2C3191%2C1111 |website=Digital Repository @ HKUL}}</ref>.

==Early life, education, and business career==
Born in [[Zhongshan|Chungshan District]], Wan was educated at Queen's College.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Huang |first1=Zhenwei |title=番書與黃龍－－香港皇仁書院華人精英與近代中國 |date=2019 |location=Xiang gang |isbn=9789888572670 |edition=初版}}</ref> Upon completing his education, he was offered a position in that college as a member of the teaching staff.

At 25 years of age, he joined the Netherlands Trading Society, and eventually became its first [[Comprador]]. By the 1930s, Wan headed a department of 10 staff.<ref>{{cite book |title=Firm Foundations: ABN Amro Greater China 1903-2016 |url=https://art-heritageabnamro.nl/images/PDF/Jaarverslag_Stichting_Kunst__Historisch_Bezit_ABN_AMRO_2016.pdf}}</ref>

Wan was a Director of the [[Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry|Yau Ma Tei Ferry]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The history of Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company Limited, 1923 to the 1970s |url=https://commons.ln.edu.hk/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1001&context=his_etd |website=The history of Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Company Limited, 1923 to the 1970s}}</ref>, The Sun Co, Limited, Ngan How Motor Bus, The Kong On SS, the National Commercial & Savings Bank, and the Wing On Life Insurance Company, and was on the Committee of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. He was also the Chairman of the Bank Compradores' Association of Hong Kong.

==Public Service==
Wan was on the Board of Directors for the [[Tung Wah Group of Hospitals|Tung Wah Hospital Group]] and the [[Po Leung Kuk|Po Leung Kok]]. He also served as the Postal Censor of the Hong Kong government. He was also appointed a Justice of the Peace.<ref>{{cite web |title=Justices of the Peace |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/jp/en/index.htm |website=Justices of the Peace}}</ref>

He has scholarships at the University of Hong Kong<ref>{{cite web |title=Alumni Attainments |url=https://www.ccsc.edu.hk/attachment/upload/files/Achievements/Alumni/AlumniGraduates_Attainments_13-14.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Post Secondary Education Scholarship Guide |url=https://www.ideascentre.hk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/cpostsecondary-schoolarship-guide.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lo Chung Wan Memorial Scholarship 盧仲雲紀念獎學金 |url=https://scholar.aas.hku.hk/?action=showonesscheme&ss_id=181 |website=HKU scholarships}}</ref> and Queen's College, to this day.

==Honours==
In recognition of his great public services to the Trading Society, Wan was created an [[Order of Orange-Nassau|Order of Orange Nassau]] Officer Class by the Consul for the Netherlands in 1937.

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