Henry Parkman Sturgis

Sturgis was born in the United States on 1 March 1847.British Census 1881 RG11 0088/83 p47 He was a son of Russell Sturgis and his third wife, Julia Overing Boit,{{cite book |last1=James |first1=Henry |title=The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880–1883: Volume 1 |date=2016 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-8547-7 |page=29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6d0nDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA29 |access-date=1 April 2020 |language=en}} a daughter of Eleanor Auchmuty (née Jones) Boit and John Boit Jr.,{{cite book |title=The Descendants of Robert Shaw Sturgis & Susan Brimmer Inches |date=1943 |publisher=Priv. Print. by W.F. Fell Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVAaQ3YUEAgC |access-date=1 April 2020 |language=en}} one of the first Americans involved in the maritime fur trade.{{cite book |last1=Boit |first1=Robert Apthorp |title=Chronicles of the Boit family and their descendants and of other allied families |date=1915 |publisher=S. J. Parkhill & Company |location=Boston |url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0222631 |access-date=1 April 2020 |language=en}} Among his siblings were the authors Julian Sturgis and Howard Sturgis[http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/13553 The New York Review of Books] and Mary Greene Hubbard Sturgis (wife of Bertram Falle, 1st Baron Portsea).{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Sir Sidney |title=Dictionary of National Biography: Neil-Young |date=1912 |publisher=Macmillan |page=451 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFxHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA451 |access-date=1 April 2020 |language=en}} From his father's previous marriage to Mary Greene Hubbard, his elder half-brother was prominent architect and builder John Hubbard Sturgis.{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Oliver Ayer |title=History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. 1637-1888 |date=1898 |publisher=A. Mudge & son, printers |page=75 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rTCcX3FvTPcC&pg=PA75 |access-date=1 April 2020 |language=en}}

Sturgis was named after his uncle, Henry Parkman Sturgis (1806–1869),{{cite book |last1=Kienholz |first1=M. |title=Opium Traders and Their Worlds-Volume One: A Revisionist Exposé of the World's Greatest Opium Traders |date=2008 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-0-595-91078-6 |page=269 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2YlO9qraI4MC&pg=PT269 |access-date=1 April 2020 |language=en}} who with his brother Russell Sturgis (1805–1887) made a fortune from the Manila-based mercantile house Russell & Sturgis founded with George Robert Russell.{{cite book|author=Ellery, Harrison|author2=Bowditch, Charles Pickering|title=The Pickering Genealogy|volume=2|year=1879|publisher=J. Wilson & Son|pages=524–525|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZZQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA524}} His cousin Maria Trinidad Howard Sturgis Middlemore was an author.

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.[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886]

In the 1885 general election, Sturgis was elected Member of Parliament for South Dorset but lost the seat in the 1886 general election.{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 |orig-year=1974 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-27-2 |page=265}} He was High Sheriff of the County of London in 1896.{{London Gazette|issue=26720|page=1596|date=10 March 1896}}{{cite book |last1=Parliament |first1=Great Britain |title=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 Parliament 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)" |date=1902 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PhA5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA6 |access-date=1 April 2020 |language=en}}

On 2 October 1872, Sturgis was married to the Hon. Mary Cecilia Brand (1851–1886) at Parish Church in Glynde.{{cite web |title=Hampden, Viscount (UK, 1884) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/hampden1884.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=1 April 2020}} 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).{{cite book |last1=Santayana |first1=George |title=The Works of George Santayana |date=1986 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-19238-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OYqXpQm5Ze8C |access-date=1 April 2020 |language=en}} Before her death on 20 June 1886, they were the parents of six children, including:{{cite book |title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage |date=1878 |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited. |page=318 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YyJNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA318 |access-date=1 April 2020 |language=en}}

• Margery Sturgis (b. 1874)
• Rachel Sturgis (b. 1876)
• Olive Sturgis (b. 1878)
• 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.{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Mervyn |title=The Amazing Victorian: a life of George Meredith |date=1999 |publisher=Constable |isbn=9780094798007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4wtbAAAAMAAJ |access-date=1 April 2020}}

Sturgis died on 1 March 1929.

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