Harold Haydon Storey was born on 10 June 1894 at Ashton-on-Mersey, Manchester; he was the fourth child of a family of four brothers and one sister. His father, Henry Storey, came from a family of engineers who established themselves in Manchester during the latter part of the nineteenth century. His mother, Marie Louisa (Ford), was a grand-daughter of David Everard Ford, a congregational minister, and was first cousin of Mrs Neville Keynes, once mayor of Cambridge. Storey was thus distantly related to, or connected with, the late Lord Keynes, Geoffrey Keynes and Professor A. V. Hill, and also with the late Sir Walter Langdon Brown, once Regius Professor of Physic in the University of Cambridge. His mother was a Justice of the Peace for the last twenty years of her life. Of Storey’s brothers, the eldest, John Everard, graduated at Manchester University in engineering; the second brother, Robert, graduated also at Manchester in chemistry, where he was a colleague of Sir Robert Robinson, Professor Simonsen, Professor Haworth and Dr E. Marsden. Both these brothers went into industry after serving in the first World War. The third brother, Gilbert, was a scholar of Queens’ College, Cambridge. After graduation he became Entomologist to the Egyptian Government, and later Secretary to the Cotton Research Board, shortly before his death in 1922. The youngest brother has spent his life in commerce mainly in the island of Trinidad, where he has recently been nominated a member of the Legislative Council.
Harold Haydon Storey, 1894-1969
