Edward Youde
As Chinese Secretary, he helped to resolve the Yangtse Incident of April 1949, when the British warship HMS "Amethyst" was caught off-guard on Yangtze River behind the rapidly advancing lines of the People's Liberation Army. While his assistant, Edward Youde, later to serve as Governor of Hong Kong, achieved popular recognition for cycling behind those lines to make contact with the "Amethyst", it was Bryan who was sent to take a lecture on gun-boat diplomacy from Huang Hua.