Man with a mission merits a biography

MAY I request your readers’ assistance in relation to a remarkable Irishman whose biography I am writing.

Thomas F Ryan SJ (1889-1971), educator, author, broadcaster, literary, art and music critic, provider for refugees and the homeless, provincial of the Jesuit mission to south China and Hong Kong, government director of agriculture, forestry and marketing in Hong Kong and, remarkably for a nationalist from the Rebel County, honoured in St George’s Royal Chapel in Windsor Castle.

This extraordinary man was born to James and Anne Ryan (formerly Goggin) at an address given as Cleeve Hill Cottage, Ballintemple, Cork, in 1889. He had one brother whose name I have not been able to establish. His father died when he was three and his mother later moved to 5 Lr Janemount, Sundays Well, Cork.