1. Ronald Storrs served as Oriental Secretary in Cairo, Military Governor of Jerusalem, Governor of Cyprus, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia.
18 Facts About Ronald Storrs
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Ronald Storrs was the eldest son of John Storrs, priest of the Church of England and later Dean of Rochester.
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Ronald Storrs's mother was Lucy Anna Maria Cockayne-Cust, sister of the fifth Baron Brownlow.
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In 1919, Ronald Storrs was appointed a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
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Ronald 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.
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In 1917, Ronald 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.
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Ronald Storrs was always first, and the great man among us.
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Ronald Storrs is credited with a classic example of British understatement when referring to the behaviour of the British toward the many tribal and regional leaders that the British were trying to influence in "The Great Game": "we deprecated the imperative, preferring instead the subjunctive or even, wistfully, the optative mood".
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Ronald Storrs is thought to have underestimated Arab Muslim resistance to non-Muslim rule.
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In 1917, Ronald Storrs became Military Governor of Jerusalem, within the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, for which purpose he was given the British Army rank of colonel.
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Ronald Storrs claimed to be "the first military governor of Jerusalem since Pontius Pilate".
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Ronald Storrs was in fact the second British military governor of Jerusalem, succeeding Brigadier General Neville Travers Borton, known as Borton Pasha, who resigned after two weeks due to ill health.
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Ronald Storrs devoted much of his time to cultural matters, including town planning, and to the Pro-Jerusalem Society, a cultural organisation that he founded.
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In 1918, Ronald Storrs created the position of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem as the Sunni Muslim cleric in charge of Jerusalem's Islamic holy places, including Al-Aqsa.
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From 1926 to 1932, Ronald Storrs was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Cyprus.
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Ronald Storrs was then appointed as Governor of Northern Rhodesia in 1932.
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Ronald Storrs retired for health reasons in 1934, at the age of 53.
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Ronald Storrs died in 1955, aged 73, and is buried at St John the Baptist Church, Pebmarsh, Essex.