Henry Knight Storks

Sir

Henry Storks
Sir; Henry Storks
	Lieutenant-General
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George;

PC

(5 April 1811 – 6 September 1874) was a British soldier and colonial governor.

Military career

Educated at

38th Regiment of Foot on 30 May 1836, he served with them in the Ionian Islands in 1840 and was promoted major on 7 August 1840.^[1]

He went on

Cape Frontier Wars from 1846 to 1847, and was subsequently promoted to an unattached lieutenant colonelcy on 15 September 1848. From 1849 to 1854, he was Assistant Military Secretary at Mauritius, and was promoted colonel on 28 November 1854.^[1]

Promoted

major-general, Storks superintended the British bases set up in Ottoman territory during the Crimean War, where he supported the nursing efforts of Florence Nightingale. After the war, he was awarded the KCB (2 January 1857) and employed from 1857 to 1859 by the War Office as Secretary for Military Correspondence.^[1]

He now began his career in colonial government, appointed

Privy Councillor (10 November 1866). He resigned the Governorship of Malta on 15 May 1867.^[1]

Now back at the War Office, he was appointed Controller-in-Chief and Under-Secretary at the War Office on 19 December 1867.

70th Regiment of Foot, an office he held for the remainder of his life.^[1]

Last years in politics

Entering politics in 1870, Storks was endorsed as the Liberal candidate at a parliamentary by-election for the

Samuel Boteler Bristowe, to take the seat. Storks was rewarded with the newly revived post of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance and Grey returned to New Zealand later that year.^[3]

The following year Storks was elected to parliament at the

Earl de Grey in the 1874 general election. He died shortly after losing the election, on 6 September 1874.^[1] He was buried in the Western part of Highgate Cemetery

.

Caricature by
Vanity Fair
in 1870
Knight Storks around 1870
Grave of Sir Henry Knight Storks in Highgate Cemetery (West)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Queen's Royal Surreys". Archived from the original on 18 December 2005. Retrieved 30 August 2006.
^ World Statesmen
^ Rees, William Lee; Rees, Lilly (1892). The Life and Times of Sir George Grey, K.C.B. London: Hutchison and Co. pp. 437–452. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Henry Knight Storks

Political offices
Preceded by William Ewart Gladstone	Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands 1859–1863	Succeeded by end of British protectorate
Preceded by Sir John Le Marchant	Governor of Malta 1864–1867	Succeeded by Sir Patrick Grant
Preceded by Edward John Eyre	Governor of Jamaica 1865–1866	Succeeded by Sir John Peter Grant
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lord John Hay	Member of Parliament for Ripon 1871–1874	Succeeded by Earl de Grey
Military offices
Vacant Title last held by Lauderdale Maule	Surveyor-General of the Ordnance 1870–1874	Succeeded by Lord Eustace Cecil
Preceded by Charles Hastings Doyle	Colonel of the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot 1870–1874	Succeeded by Thomas James Galloway

[qrs-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Queen's Royal Surreys". Archived from the original on 18 December 2005. Retrieved 30 August 2006.

[2] World Statesmen

[3] Rees, William Lee; Rees, Lilly (1892). The Life and Times of Sir George Grey, K.C.B. London: Hutchison and Co. pp. 437–452. Retrieved 12 January 2016.

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