Call to Japan

At the age of 24 Henry Dyer received an invitation to become the Principal of the Imperial College of Engineering (ICE) being set up in Tokyo by the Japanese Ministry of Public Works. The ICE was one of three engineering colleges being established in Tokyo at the time, though the only one to be under the control of the Ministry of Public Works. He was followed about a year later by his wife to be Marie Ferguson. The marriage took place at the British Legation in Yokohama.

In 1882 Dyer resigned from the ICE and returned to Glasgow.