Henry Parkman Sturgis

Henry Parkman Sturgis (1 March 1847 – 1 March 1929)[1] was an American-born banker in England and a Liberal politician.

Henry Parkman Sturgis
High Sheriff of the County of London
In office 1896–1897
Preceded by	George Faudel-Phillips
Succeeded by	Henry James Lubbock
Member of Parliament for South Dorset
In office 1885–1886
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	Charles J. T. Hambro
Personal details
Born	(1847-03-01)1 March 1847 United States
Died	1 March 1929(1929-03-01) (aged 82)
Spouse(s)	Hon. Mary Cecilia Brand ​ ( m. 1872; died 1886) Marie "Mariette" Eveleen Meredith ​ ( m. 1896; his death 1929)
Relations	John Hubbard Sturgis (brother) Julian Sturgis (brother) Howard Sturgis (brother)
Parents	Russell Sturgis Julia Boit Sturgis
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford

Early life

Sturgis was born in the United States on 1 March 1847.[2] He was a son of Russell Sturgis and his third wife, Julia Overing Boit,[3] a daughter of Eleanor Auchmuty (née Jones) Boit and John Boit Jr.,[4] one of the first Americans involved in the maritime fur trade.[5] Among his siblings were the authors Julian Sturgis and Howard Sturgis[6] and Mary Greene Hubbard Sturgis (wife of Bertram Falle, 1st Baron Portsea).[7] From his father's previous marriage to Mary Greene Hubbard, his elder half-brother was prominent architect and builder John Hubbard Sturgis.[8]

Sturgis was named after his uncle, Henry Parkman Sturgis (1806–1869),[9] who with his brother Russell Sturgis (1805–1887) made a fortune from the Manila-based mercantile house Russell & Sturgis founded with George Robertson Russell.[10] His cousin Maria Trinidad Howard Sturgis Middlemore was an author.[8]

Education and career

Sturgis was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. He became a partner in Baring Bros. & Co. of Liverpool (his father was senior partner in London) and was a director of London and Westminster Bank.[11]

In the 1885 general election, Sturgis was elected Member of Parliament for South Dorset but lost the seat in the 1886 general election.[12] He was High Sheriff of the County of London in 1896.[13][14]

Personal life

On 2 October 1872, Sturgis was married to the Hon. Mary Cecilia Brand (1851–1886) at Parish Church in Glynde.[15] Mary was a daughter of Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden (son of Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre) and the former Eliza Ellice (daughter of General Robert Ellice).[16] Before her death on 20 June 1886, they were the parents of six children, including:[17]

• Margery Sturgis (b. 1874)[17]
• Rachel Sturgis (b. 1876)[17]
• Olive Sturgis (b. 1878)[17]
• Lt.-Col. Henry Russell Sturgis (1879–1967), who married Violet Elizabeth Grinnell-Milne, a sister of Duncan Grinnell-Milne, in 1913.
• Mary Sturgis (1886–1982), who married William Fortescue Basset, a son of Richard Bassett, in 1910.

On 17 July 1896, Sturgis married Marie "Mariette" Eveleen Meredith (1871–1933), the daughter of the novelist George Meredith.[18]

Sturgis died on 1 March 1929.

References

1. "Leigh Rayment". Archived from the original on 31 July 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
2. British Census 1881 RG11 0088/83 p47
3. James, Henry (2016). The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1883: Volume 1. U of Nebraska Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8032-8547-7. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
4. The Descendants of Robert Shaw Sturgis & Susan Brimmer Inches. Priv. Print. by W.F. Fell Company. 1943. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
5. Boit, Robert Apthorp (1915). Chronicles of the Boit family and their descendants and of other allied families. Boston: S. J. Parkhill & Company. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
6. The New York Review of Books
7. Lee, Sir Sidney (1912). Dictionary of National Biography: Neil-Young. Macmillan. p. 451. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
8. Roberts, Oliver Ayer (1898). History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. 1637-1888. A. Mudge & son, printers. p. 75. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
9. Kienholz, M. (2008). Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume One: A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders. iUniverse. p. 269. ISBN 978-0-595-91078-6. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
10. Ellery, Harrison; Bowditch, Charles Pickering (1879). The Pickering Genealogy. vol. 2. J. Wilson & Son. pp. 524–525.
11. Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
12. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 265. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
13. "No. 26720". The London Gazette. 10 March 1896. p. 1596.
14. Parliament, Great Britain (1902). Members of Parliament: Return to an Address of the ... House of Commons, Dated 13 August 1901; - For, "Return of the Names of Every Member Returned to Serve in Each Parliament from the Year 1885 to the Dissolution of Parliment in the Year 1900, Specifying the Names of the County, City, University Or Place for which Returned (in Continuation of Parliamentary Paper No. 21 of Session 1887)". H.M. Stationery Office. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
15. "Hampden, Viscount (UK, 1884)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
16. Santayana, George (1986). The Works of George Santayana. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19238-5. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
17. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1878. p. 318. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
18. Jones, Mervyn (1999). The Amazing Victorian: a life of George Meredith. Constable. Retrieved 1 April 2020.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Henry Sturgis

Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for South Dorset 1885 – 1886	Succeeded by Charles J. T. Hambro
Honorary titles
Preceded by George Faudel-Phillips	High Sheriff of the County of London 1896 – 1897	Succeeded by Henry James Lubbock