Career
He was a translator of the Bible into Vietnamese. He enrolled to be a missionary in China but from there visited Vietnam where he met a South African nurse Grace Hazenberg. The couple ran a printing shop in Hanoi from 1917 until 1942 when they were interned by the Japanese at Mỹ Tho.
They were the only couple to remain after the war.
Grace Cadman died On 24 April 1946 at the age of 69 and was buried at Mạc Đĩnh Chi Cemetery, Saigon. Cadman died in Dalat, on Sunday, 7 December, and was buried there.