Richard Storey

The Honourable Sir Richard Storey, 2nd Baronet, CBE, DL, FRSA (born 23 January 1937) is a British businessman.

Storey was born on 23 January 1937 in the City of Westminster, London, the only son of Samuel Storey, Baron Buckton, who at the time was a member of parliament for Sunderland and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Brigadier Wilfred Woodcock.

[1] Storey was chairman of his family company Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers from 1973 (previously being a director from 1962 and chief executive from 1973 to 1986) until it was purchased by Johnston Press in 1998.

[1] Storey, together with film producer Ian Flooks, is a shareholder of loss-making Wasted Management Ltd, owner of MixMag.

[6] Sir Richard lists his hobbies in Debrett's as silviculture and arboriculture and has held various business posts in connection with these, including as chairman of Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum Management Committee from 1989 to 2005, a trustee of The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Foundation from 1990 to 2003, a director of Castle Howard Arboretum Trust (CHAT) from 1997 to 2013 and chairman of the International Dendrology Society from 2007 to 2012.