Henry followed his father’s path in education and choice of career, entering Eton on a King’s Scholarship where he was a sporting as well as academic success, playing the Wall Game.
[3] He took the Indian Civil Service entrance exam while still at Eton, competing against candidates who had already obtained university degrees, and passed out near the top.
[5] In September 1890 Henry sailed for India and took up his first posting at Meerut, in the North West Provinces as Assistant Magistrate and Collector.
In 1899, after nine months home leave, he was promoted to Director of Land Records and Agriculture and Joint Secretary to the Board of Revenue and then in 1901 to be Registrar at the High Court in Allahabad.
[10] In 1919 Henry remarried Minnie Barnes (known as Madge) whom he had met while in London and went back to India with her, where a daughter Alison was born.
Seeing that coin collecting was being ‘perused haphazardly by individuals, mostly government officers’ he took it upon himself to bring in more organisation and called a conference at his house in Allahabad in December 1910.