Herbert Lushington Storey

Herbert Lushington Storey (1853–1933) was a businessman and High Sheriff of Lancashire.

Storey was a son of Sir Thomas Storey and was born in Lancaster, Lancashire in 1853. After his education at Friends' School, the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster and Derby Grammar School, he spent some time working for the engineering firm of James Farmer in Salford before attending Owens College for further education. He also visited Germany to learn both the language and the business methods adopted in that country.

A Liberal Unionist, Storey was a Lancaster town councillor for eight years and was made a county magistrate in 1898. He was also a philanthropist, enabling extension lectures at the University of Lancaster and, in 1902, giving £10,000 to extend the Storey Institute that had initially been funded by his father. In the same year, he gave £5,000 to the Royal Albert Asylum for the erection of what were named the Herbert Storey Industrial Schools and Workshops.

Storey was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire in March 1904, ten years after his father had held the same office. A wooden arch was erected on Lancaster's Penny Street to commemorate the event. He held various company directorships at that time, including the Lancaster-based businesses of Storey Bros. & Co. at White Cross Linoleum Mills and the Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Company. Other directorships were with the Barrow and Calcutta Flax and Jute Company, the Ackers, Whitley and Co. collieries in Wigan and the Darwen and Mostyn Iron Company.

He was married and had a son and a daughter.