 In 1922–23, he led a tour of India and east Asia with his wife, Bessel Adams, a former D'Oyly Carte singer, playing in Gilbert and Sullivan, again with J. C. Williamson's company.Adams died on that tour in February 1923 in Calcutta.Workman died at sea in May 1923, just short of his 5ist birthday, in a steamer outside Hong Kong, returning from the same tour.