Talk:Ronald Storrs

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Quotation

For the record (and since it took me so long to find), the mangled quotation just correctly removed comes from the The Sunday Times 28 Jan 1934, p13. Author "Autolycus". The corrected text is as follows:

"The health of Sir Ronald Storrs has always belied his robust exterior. Now it seems likely to deprive the Colonial Office of one of its most versatile officials. Only by rigid asceticism—he is a non-smoker, a teetotaller, and, as a rule, an unwilling vegetarian—has he managed hitherto to pursue his career.

This started in Egypt, where Lord Kitchener found his talents as a linguist and a collector equally valuable. I have been told that Lord Duveen once offered him a partnership. Admittedly he is a first-rate authority on Byzantine and Saracenic art.

Sir Ronald is a cousin of Lord Brownlow."

Zero^talk 16:06, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Zero, I'm going to use this as a source (though not the quotation) for his retirement in 1934. It currently has a citation needed tag. Feel free to revert me; I have read all the Jerusalem mufti-related talk pages and decided you know as much as anyone in the Wikiverse about this. I still can't get over that the first military governor of Jerusalem since Pontius Pilate AND the former governor of Rhodesia was the creator of the position of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. (Although there is an ongoing and unresolved discussion regarding whether the British created the position of Mufti of Jerusalem or Grand Mufti of Palestine....)--FeralOink (talk) 15:03, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Cyprus - the burning of Government House and loss of documents

I am sure I read somewhere that Storrs lost his personal archives relating to his stay in Palestine and earlier when Government House in Cyprus burnt down.

For his book, "Orientations", he had to reconstruct events largely from letters written to his parents in England. Dori1951 (talk) 18:31, 29 December 2022 (UTC)