Japan opens its first railway in 1872, the year of Henry Dyer’s arrival in Tokyo.
henry dyer, born 1848
ENGINEER & EDUCATOR IN JAPAN
Henry Dyer was a Scottish Engineer who played a major part in the industrialisation of Japan in the latter half of the nineteenth century through his capacity as founding Principal, in 1872, of the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo. He did much to bring together the British and Japanese communities, each of whom he believed had much to learn from the other. On leaving Japan in 1882 he returned to Glasgow where he contributed to the cultural, social and educational life of the city until his death in 1918.
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Source: Provided to Lives Retold by Robin Hunter, a descendant of Henry Dyer’s sister Janet, in 2020.