Storey was the son of Frederick George Storey and his wife Mary Dagmar née Hutton, and was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Cambridge.
After graduation, he became a barrister in the Inner Temple in 1919 and joined Sunderland Borough Council in 1928.
[3] He joined the East Riding of Yorkshire County Council in 1946.
He was created a baronet in February 1960[5] and, after his defeat at the 1966 general election,[6] he was given a life peerage as Baron Buckton,[7] of Settrington in the East Riding of the County of York.
The life barony became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the hereditary baronetcy by his son, Richard.