Author: Storie, George Henry
Biography:
STORIE, George Henry (1798-1869?: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 9 Dec. 1798 and baptised on 10 Jan. 1799 at St. Giles, Camberwell, Southwark, London, the second of five children of Rev. George Henry Storie (1766-1833) and his wife Elizabeth Jekyll Chalmers (1780-1825), who had married at St. Luke’s, Chelsea, in 1796. His grandfather Thomas Storie left an estate in Tobago and woodland in Dominica to the family, which they later sold. He was educated at Westminster and initially entered St. John’s College Cambridge (matric. 1817) but migrated to Trinity Hall in 1820 (LLB 1824). He narrowly escaped rustication for being abusive to a clergyman in 1824. He was admitted into the Middle Temple in 1819. Very little is known of his later life. In 1839 he was recorded as living at 38 Craven Street, off the Strand, London, and as the freeholder of family properties at Springfield Terrace, Grove Hill, Camberwell. His brother, Thomas Chalmers Storie (1802-66), also owned property there and his elder brother Rev. John George Storie (1797-1858) remained at the vicarage. Thereafter there is no trace of him in the public records. He is not listed in the censuses and there is no record of his death. It is possible he dropped his middle name or his surname was recorded in the variant spelling “Storey” but there are no obvious matches and several George Stories/Storeys can be discounted. One possibility might be that he died abroad. He quoted Petrarch on the title page of Mountain Rambles (1824) and a George Storie, son of George Storie, was buried in the English Cemetery in Florence on 1 Jan. 1869, aged 70. His grave has disappeared and his entry is marked “An Englishman, his story is not known.” The location and date of death are therefore speculative and require corroboration. (ancestry.co.uk 3 May 2023; findmypast.co.uk 3 May 2023; CCEd 3 May 2023; Cambridge Chronicle 2 Apr. 1824; Morning Post 7 Mar. 1825, 2 Nov. 1833; GM Jan. 1834, 114-5; English Cemetery Florence, florin.ms, entry 1033; GRO Consular Death Overseas Indices 1849-1965) AA
Other Names:
- G. H. Storie