[3][4] Soon after the boy's birth, the Fulford family returned to Australia,[5] where Rev.
[4] After graduating from the Melbourne Grammar School, Henry Fulford went to England, to acquire some business experience in London.
As he was the only person of the three Brits who had a China background, he provided the British party with a language and cultural expertise.
He became the consul there in 1899,[8] and served in that position during the Boxer Uprising and the Russo-Japanese War, informing the British governments on the events as they developed.
On 15 May 1929, his daughter found him shot dead, aged 69, apparently in a suicide, in the bedroom of his Melbourne residence.