People · Shanghai daotai
Tu Zongying
涂宗瀛Tú Zōngyíng · 1812–1894
Shanghai daotai from 1869, in whose term the consuls put the 1869 Land Regulations into effect before Chinese approval.
Tu Zongying (涂宗瀛, Tú Zōngyíng) was the Shanghai daotai in 1869, the year the revised Land Regulations took effect.
A native of Lu’an in Anhui and a provincial graduate, he managed military grain supply under Viceroy Zeng Guofan and was made prefect of Jiangning. He took the Shanghai post in 1869. In that year the Land Regulations, which the foreign ministers had approved, were brought into force by the consuls; according to the gazetteer, the Chinese government had not approved them, and the consuls informed Tu only after the decision to apply them.
In 1871 he moved to Hunan as judicial commissioner and later rose to Governor-General of Huguang. He died in 1894. The gazetteer entry for him is short and records little else about his time in Shanghai; the gazetteer’s date for his degree is given as the Daoguang year 24, which corresponds to 1844 rather than the 1839 printed beside it, so that detail is left unresolved.