3-021-158 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

General Sir Henry Storks, K.C.B., the new Comptroller-In-Chief of the Army, 1868. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. J. Watkins. Storks '...was Assistant Adjutant-General in the Kaffir War, twenty years ago; and during the war with Russia...he commanded some of the British military establishments on the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. From 1857 to 1859 [he]...was employed at the War Office as Secretary for Military Correspondence...in 1859 he was sent as Lord High Commissioner to rule the Ionian Islands...Sir Henry Storks was [later] promoted to be Governor of Malta. It will be remembered that he was called away from Malta, at the beginning of the year 1866, to undertake the temporary charge of the Government of Jamaica, pending the investigation ordered by the Colonial Office into the circumstances of the Morant Bay massacre...His proved capacity and practical experience in affairs of combined military and civil administration recommend him for the new office of Comptroller in Chief; the functions of which relate especially to the superintendence of the Commissariat, Land Transport, and Quartermaster's departments, to be brought into good working order, and kept in harmony with the other arrangements of the Army'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.