Robert Armitage Sterndale

[5] A keen sportsman and big-game hunter, he wrote several books on natural history including on the mammals of India,[6] republished in a new and abridged edition by Frank Finn.

Herbert, James Mackenzie, E. Field, Grant Blunt, J. C. Mellis[13]) in London to save St. Helena and set up a fish curing industry.

In 1895 he was temporarily assigned to govern St. Helena during the absence of William Grey-Wilson and was posted as a Governor in 1897,[14] a position that was succeeded by Henry Lionel Galway in 1902.

One of his brothers Handley Bathurst Sterndale (1829–1878) was an archaeologist who suggested connections between the monuments made by vanished Polynesian civilizations and relics in India, Britain and Central America.

[16] Sterndale died of a heart attack at the St Ermin's Hotel in Westminster while home on sick leave from Saint Helena on 2 October 1902.