Sir Ronald Storrs
| Sir Ronald Storrs | |
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| Governor of Northern Rhodesia | |
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In office 27 October 1932 – 19 February 1934 |
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| Preceded by | Sir James Maxwell |
| Succeeded by | Sir Hubert Winthrop Young |
| Governor of Cyprus | |
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In office 30 November 1926 – 29 October 1932 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Malcolm Stevenson |
| Succeeded by | Sir Reginald Stubbs |
| Governor of Jerusalem and Judea | |
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In office 1 July 1920 – 30 November 1926 |
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| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Edward Keith-Roach |
| Military Governor of Jerusalem | |
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In office 28 December 1917 – 30 June 1920 |
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| Preceded by | Neville Travers Borton |
| Succeeded by | Office disestablished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 November 1881 Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom |
| Died | 1 November 1955 (aged 73) London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
Sir Ronald Henry Amherst Storrs KCMG CBE (19 November 1881 – 1 November 1955) was an official in the British Foreign and Colonial Office. He served as Oriental Secretary in Cairo, Military Governor of Jerusalem, Governor of Cyprus, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia.
The eldest son of John Storrs, the Dean of Rochester. Married to Louisa Lucy Storrs.
Ronald Storrs was educated at Charterhouse School and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he gained a first class degree in the Classical Tripos.
Storrs entered the Finance Ministry of the Egyptian Government in 1904, five years later becoming Oriental Secretary to the British Agency, succeeding Harry Boyle in this post. In 1917 Storrs became Political Officer representing the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia as Liaison officer for the Anglo-French mission in Baghdad and Mesopotamia where he met Gertrude Bell and Sir Percy Cox.
T. E. Lawrence commented in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
"The first of all of us was Ronald Storrs, Oriental Secretary of the Residency, the most brilliant Englishman in the Near East, and subtly efficient, despite his diversion of energy in love of music and letters, of sculpture, painting, of whatever was beautiful in the world's fruit... Storrs was always first, and the great man among us".
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