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Portrait photograph of General Sir Henry Knight Storks G.C.B., 1865-70 (c). Head and torso image only - Storks is pictured wearing his military uniform with sash and decorations. He was appointed Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands in February 1859, reorganising the judiciary of the islands before the end of the commissionership (by treaty) on the 14th of November 1863. Sent next to Malta, he was appointed Governor in 1864 but was called to Jamaica the following year to investigate disturbances there. He was appointed Governor of Jamaica in December 1865, holding that post until the 16th of July 1866. He resigned the Governorship of Malta on the 15th of May 1867. From a photograph album of 70 images compiled by Gen Sir George Whitmore, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers in Malta, between 1811 and 1829; photographs include Malta, Gibraltar, Constantinople and the Crimea, 1850s-1880s; with some taken by James Robertson, Felice Beato and Roger Fenton. Sir George Whitmore was also an architect, designing buildings in Malta and Greece.