[1] He was made Chevalier of the Order of Saint Anna[1] for his services (along with those of Alfred Lewis Jones) to the duma during the Russian imperial visit to Cowes in 1909.

Later he moved to work for Reynold, Mann & Co., ship-owners and East India merchants, for whom he travelled extensively to America, Australia, and elsewhere.

In Beijing he met with de Lessar (the Russian Minister[7]), after which he visited Shenyang and Harbin also in China.

The trip ended with a week in Moscow and St Petersburg, "where he was received by, amongst others, the British Minister (Sir Charles Scott), and Prince Khilkoff".

Thomas Henry was living at 79 Canning Street, Liverpool in 1861 at the age of 19, with his mother Elizabeth (already a widow) and working as a ships' clerk.

In 1908 after the Conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in Montreal he went on a journey to Japan and China and returned to Liverpool via the Trans-Siberian Railway soon after it was opened.