# John Storr

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Rear-Admiral **John Storr** (18 August 1709 – 10 January 1783[1]) was an officer of the [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy). He served during the [Seven Years' War](/source/Seven_Years'_War), reaching the rank of [Rear admiral of the Red](/source/Admiral_of_the_Red).

## Early life

Storr was born on 18 August 1709 at [Humbleton](/source/Humbleton), [East Riding of Yorkshire](/source/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire),[2] the son of Joseph Storr.[1]

## Career

Storr was appointed [commander](/source/Commander_(Royal_Navy)) on 3 July 1746,[3] and [captain](/source/Captain_(Royal_Navy)) on 1 November 1748.[3][1] He was given command of [HMS *Gloucester*](/source/HMS_Gloucester_(1745)) on 1 November 1748, a position he held until 1753. He was later posted on [HMS *St George*](/source/HMS_Charles_(1668)), a 90-gun [second-rate](/source/Second-rate) ship, in January 1755, a post which he retained until the following year.

In 1757 he took command of HMS *Revenge* and kept it until 1760. On board, he took part in the [Battle of Cartagena](/source/Battle_of_Cartagena_(1758)) on 28 February 1758 off the Spanish port of [Cartagena](/source/Cartagena,_Spain) in the [Mediterranean](/source/Mediterranean). A British fleet under the command of [Admiral Osborn](/source/Henry_Osborn_(Royal_Navy_officer)), who blocked the French fleet inside the [port of Cartagena](/source/Port_of_Cartagena), attacked and defeated a French fleet under the orders of [Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville](/source/Michel-Ange_Duquesne_de_Menneville), who had come to their aid. The interception of the French fleet was intended to limit the reinforcements sent to the aid of [Louisbourg](/source/Louisbourg) in North America, which was then besieged by the British.[4]

He participated in the [Battle of Quiberon Bay](/source/Battle_of_Quiberon_Bay), 20 November 1759, still on HMS *Revenge*. He was then part of the [Red Squadron](/source/Red_Squadron), the central body of the fleet, under the command of [Edward Hawke](/source/Edward_Hawke,_1st_Baron_Hawke), admiral of the Blue.

From 1760 to 1762 he commanded [HMS *Monmouth*](/source/HMS_Monmouth_(1667)). Storr was appointed rear admiral of the White, 19 March 1779[1] and then rear admiral of the Red, 26 September 1780.[3]

## Personal life

Storr married on 11 May 1773 at [St George's Church](/source/St_George's,_Bloomsbury), [Bloomsbury](/source/Bloomsbury), London.[1] His wife was [John Norris Gordon](/source/John_Norris_Hewett), noted at her death as an art collector and amateur artist.[5]

Storr died on 10 January 1783 and was buried at [Westminster Abbey](/source/Westminster_Abbey).[1] A marble tablet and bust was erected in the chapel of St John the Evangelist in Westminster Abbey in his memory.[1]

An octagonal tower in [Hilston](/source/Hilston), [East Riding of Yorkshire](/source/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire), known as Admiral Storr's Tower, was built in 1750 as a look-out tower for Joseph Storr.[6] This is now designated a Grade II [listed building](/source/Listed_building) and recorded in the [National Heritage List for England](/source/National_Heritage_List_for_England), maintained by [Historic England](/source/Historic_England).[7]

## References

1. ["John Storr"](http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/john-storr). Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 25 November 2016.

1. Bains, Edward (1823). [*History, Directory & Gazetteer of the County of York*](https://books.google.com/books?id=-xgHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA357). Vol. II, East and North Yorkshire. Edward Bains. p. 357. Retrieved 30 November 2016.

1. Charnock, John (1798). [*Biographia navalis*](https://books.google.com/books?id=uCwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA92). Vol. VI. pp. 92–93. Retrieved 30 November 2016.

1. Middleton 1985, pp. 66–67.

1. ["John Norris Hewett, a singular woman"](https://neiljeffares.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/john-norris-hewett-a-singular-woman/). 19 October 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2017.

1. Pevsner, Nikolaus & Neave, David (2002). [*Yorkshire: York and the East Riding*](https://books.google.com/books?id=bcp5soQZ0OwC&pg=PA472). The Buildings of England. Yale University Press. p. 472. ISBN 0-300-09593-7.

## Biography

- Middleton, Richard (1985). ["The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years' War, 1757–1762"](https://archive.org/details/bellsofvictorypi0000midd). *The Bells of Victory*. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-26546-0.

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