# Henry Storks > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Henry_Storks > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Henry_Storks.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Storks > Source revision: 1352943211 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British Army general}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = [Lieutenant-General](/source/Lieutenant_general_(United_Kingdom)) [The Right Honourable](/source/The_Right_Honourable) | name = Sir Henry Storks | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB|GCMG}} | image = File:Henry Knight Storks.jpg | image_size = | caption = Storks in 1836 | birth_date = 5 April 1811 | death_date = 6 September 1874 (aged 63) | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = | death_place = | burial_coordinates = | nickname = | allegiance = {{UK}} | branch = 23px [British Army](/source/British_Army) | service_years = 1828 – 1874 | rank = [Lieutenant-General](/source/Lieutenant-General) | unit = | commands = | battles = | awards = {{plainlist| *[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath](/source/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath) *[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George](/source/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_St_Michael_and_St_George) }} | relations = | other_work = }} [Lieutenant-General](/source/Lieutenant-general_(United_Kingdom)) '''Sir Henry Knight Storks''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB|GCMG|PC|sep=,|size=100}} (5 April 1811 – 6 September 1874) was a British soldier and colonial governor. ==Military career== Educated at [Charterhouse School](/source/Charterhouse_School), he entered the Army on 10 January 1828 as an [ensign](/source/ensign_(rank)) of the [61st Regiment of Foot](/source/61st_Regiment_of_Foot).{{Cite web |url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels/072.html |title=Queen's Royal Surreys |access-date=30 August 2006 |archive-date=18 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051218023001/http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels/072.html |url-status=dead }} He was promoted lieutenant on 2 March 1832, exchanged to the [14th Regiment of Foot](/source/14th_Regiment_of_Foot) on 23 March 1832 and was promoted [captain](/source/Captain_(British_Army_and_Royal_Marines)) on 30 October 1835. Exchanging to the [38th Regiment of Foot](/source/38th_Regiment_of_Foot) on 30 May 1836, he served with them in the [Ionian Islands](/source/Ionian_Islands) in 1840 and was promoted major on 7 August 1840. He went on [half pay](/source/half_pay) from the regiment on 23 May 1845 and served in a variety of staff posts. He served as an Assistant [Adjutant General](/source/Adjutant_General) during the seventh of the [Cape Frontier Wars](/source/Cape_Frontier_Wars) from 1846 to 1847, and was subsequently promoted to an unattached [lieutenant colonel](/source/lieutenant_colonel)cy on 15 September 1848. From 1849 to 1854, he was Assistant Military Secretary at [Mauritius](/source/Mauritius), and was promoted [colonel](/source/colonel) on 28 November 1854. Promoted [major-general](/source/major-general), Storks superintended the British bases set up in [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire) territory during the [Crimean War](/source/Crimean_War), where he supported the nursing efforts of [Florence Nightingale](/source/Florence_Nightingale). After the war, he was awarded the [KCB](/source/Order_of_the_Bath) (2 January 1857) and employed from 1857 to 1859 by the [War Office](/source/War_Office) as Secretary for Military Correspondence. He now began his career in colonial government, appointed [Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands](/source/Lord_High_Commissioner_of_the_Ionian_Islands) on 2 February 1859. While serving there, he was created [GCMG](/source/GCMG) in 1860, and reorganized the judiciary of the islands before the end of the commissionership (by treaty) on 14 November 1863. He was made a [GCB](/source/Order_of_the_Bath) on 1 July 1864. Sent next to [Malta](/source/Malta), he was appointed [Governor](/source/Governor_of_Malta) on 15 November 1864. However, he was called the next year to [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica) to investigate the disturbances there, including the [Morant Bay rebellion](/source/Morant_Bay_rebellion), and was appointed [Governor of Jamaica](/source/Governor_of_Jamaica) on 12 December 1865.[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Jamaica.htm World Statesmen] He held that post until 16 July 1866. Upon his return, he was created a [Privy Councillor](/source/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom) (10 November 1866). He resigned the Governorship of Malta on 15 May 1867. Now back at the War Office, he was appointed Controller-in-Chief and Under-Secretary at the War Office on 19 December 1867. There, he was involved in the re-organization of Army logistics that took place after the Crimean War. He was appointed [Surveyor-General of the Ordnance](/source/Surveyor-General_of_the_Ordnance) on 5 August 1870, the first to hold that post since the Crimean War. On 10 October 1870 he was appointed colonel of the [70th Regiment of Foot](/source/70th_Regiment_of_Foot), an office he held for the remainder of his life. ==Last years in politics== Entering politics in 1870, Storks was endorsed as the Liberal candidate at a parliamentary by-election for the [Borough of Newark](/source/Newark_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) that followed the death of the sitting Liberal MP. He was opposed by [Sir George Grey](/source/Sir_George_Grey), standing as an independent liberal. Grey's views the [Colonial Empire](/source/British_Empire), of emigration, of [Home Rule for Ireland](/source/Home_rule) and poverty were contrary to those of Gladstone's Liberal government. The administration arranged that both withdrew, allowing the Liberal [Samuel Boteler Bristowe](/source/Samuel_Boteler_Bristowe) to take the seat. Storks was rewarded with the newly revived post of [Surveyor-General of the Ordnance](/source/Surveyor-General_of_the_Ordnance), and Grey returned to New Zealand later that year.{{cite book|last1=Rees|first1=William Lee|last2=Rees|first2=Lilly|author-link1=William Lee Rees|author-link2=Annie Lee Rees|title=The Life and Times of Sir George Grey, K.C.B.|date=1892|publisher=Hutchison and Co|location=London|pages=437–452 |url=https://archive.org/stream/lifetimesofsirge02reesuoft#page/437/mode/2up|access-date=12 January 2016}} The following year Storks was elected to parliament at the [Ripon](/source/Ripon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) [by-election](/source/1871_Ripon_by-election). He was promoted [lieutenant general](/source/lieutenant_general) on 25 October 1871. While in Parliament, he spoke in favor of the abolition of the [purchase system for Army commissions](/source/Purchase_of_commissions_in_the_British_Army). His stance on the [Contagious Diseases Acts](/source/Contagious_Diseases_Acts) contributed to his defeat by the [Earl de Grey](/source/Frederick_Robinson%2C_2nd_Marquess_of_Ripon) in the [1874 general election](/source/1874_United_Kingdom_general_election). He died shortly after losing the election, on 6 September 1874. He was buried in the Western part of [Highgate Cemetery](/source/Highgate_Cemetery). File:Henry Knight Storks, Vanity Fair, 1870-12-24.jpg|Caricature by [Ape](/source/Carlo_Pellegrini_(caricaturist)) published in ''[Vanity Fair](/source/Vanity_Fair_(UK))'' in 1870 File:Sir Henry Knight Storks (1811-1874).jpg|Knight Storks around 1870 File:Grave of Sir Henry Knight Storks in Highgate Cemetery (West).jpg|Grave of Sir Henry Knight Storks in Highgate Cemetery (West) ==References== {{reflist}} == External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | sir-henry-storks | Henry Knight Storks }} {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box|title=[Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands](/source/Lord_High_Commissioner_of_the_Ionian_Islands)|years=1859–1863|before=[William Ewart Gladstone](/source/William_Ewart_Gladstone)|after=end of British protectorate}} {{succession box|title=[Governor of Malta](/source/Governor_of_Malta)|years=1864–1867|before=[Sir John Le Marchant](/source/John_Le_Marchant_(British_Army_officer%2C_born_1803))|after=[Sir Patrick Grant](/source/Patrick_Grant_(Indian_Army_officer))}} {{succession box|title=[Governor of Jamaica](/source/Governor_of_Jamaica)|years=1865–1866|before=[Edward John Eyre](/source/Edward_John_Eyre)|after=[Sir John Peter Grant](/source/John_Peter_Grant)}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title=[Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Ripon](/source/Ripon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years=1871–1874 | before=[Lord John Hay](/source/Lord_John_Hay_(Royal_Navy_admiral_of_the_fleet)) | after=[Earl de Grey](/source/Frederick_Robinson%2C_2nd_Marquess_of_Ripon)}} {{s-mil}} |- {{s-vac | last=[Lauderdale Maule](/source/Lauderdale_Maule)}} {{s-ttl | title=[Surveyor-General of the Ordnance](/source/Surveyor-General_of_the_Ordnance) | years=1870–1874}} {{s-aft | after=[Lord Eustace Cecil](/source/Lord_Eustace_Cecil)}} |- {{succession box | before=[Charles Hastings Doyle](/source/Charles_Hastings_Doyle) | title=Colonel of the [70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot](/source/70th_(Surrey)_Regiment_of_Foot) | years=1870–1874 | after=[Thomas James Galloway](/source/Thomas_James_Galloway)}} {{s-end}} {{Governors of Malta}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Storks, Henry Knight}} Category:1811 births Category:1874 deaths Category:Burials at Highgate Cemetery Category:British Army lieutenant generals Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Category:Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Category:People educated at Charterhouse School Category:Governors of Jamaica Category:UK MPs 1868–1874 Category:West Yorkshire Regiment officers Category:61st Regiment of Foot officers Category:Governors and governors-general of Malta --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Henry Storks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Storks) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Storks?action=history)). 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