Anthony Morris Storer

[1] He was admitted a fellow-commoner of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in December 1764, but left without taking a degree.

He visited Carlisle in Ireland in 1781, and, through his interest, succeeded Benjamin L'Anglois as a commissioner of the Board of Trade on 26 July 1781.

He enlisted in the Fox–North Coalition; and in September 1783, to the indignation of Edward Gibbon, who also aspired to the post, he was sent by Fox to Paris as secretary of the legation.

On 13 December 1783, when the ambassador, the Duke of Manchester, came home, Storer was nominated as minister plenipotentiary.

He was desirous in December 1787 of entering the diplomatic service, and in April 1793 he languished for employment; but his father's death in the same year brought him a fortune.

He purchased Purley Park, between Pangbourne and Reading and, with the advice of Humphrey Repton, improved and ornamented the grounds.

"[3] Although Storer complained of the "burden of having nothing to do" in 1787, having been three years out of Parliament, he was busy developing his library and print collection.

[1] Letters by Storer are printed in John Heneage Jesse's George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, vols.

Anthony Morris Storer by Nathaniel Dance-Holland
John Smith, The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (London, 1624), extra-illustrated in one folio volume by Anthony Morris Storer. The book was first owned by James I and was bought by Storer in 'a dirty bookseller in Derby'. Eton College Library, Ci.1.2.01.
Eton College Library showing Anthony Morris Storer's extra-illustrated copy of James Granger 's Biographical History of England , left to the College in 1799 along with the book press.