Sir Mark Beresford Russell Grant-Sturgis KCB (born Sturgis; 10 July 1884 – 29 April 1949) was a British civil servant who served as Assistant Under-Secretary for Ireland.
[3] From 1920 to 1922, he was assistant to the joint Under-Secretaries for Ireland, James Macmahon and Sir John Anderson.
[6] His funeral was held at Golders Green Crematorium and attended by Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, representing his mother, Queen Maria, as well as several prominent government officials and aristocrats, including the Earl and Countess of Wharncliffe; Violet, Countess of Ypres; Lord Adam Gordon, Sir Neville Anderson, Sir Eric St John Bamford, and Sir Roderick Meiklejohn [7] In 1999 his diaries detailing his time as a senior Civil Servant in Ireland were published by the Irish Academic Press in Dublin.
In these diaries he expressed that "I almost begin to believe that these mean, dishonest, insufferably conceited Irishmen are an inferior race and are only sufferable when they are whipped – like the Jews".
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