Ronald Storrs was born at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 19 November 1881, the eldest son of the Reverend John Storrs (c.1825-1928), then vicar of St Peter's, Eaton Square, London, and his wife, Lucy Anna Marie Cust (d. 1923), sister of the fifth Earl Brownlow. John Storrs and his wife had 6 children including Ronald: Francis Edmund Storrs (1882–1918), Bernard St. John Storrs (1884–1967), Monica Melanie Storrs (1888-1967), Right. Reverend Christopher Evelyn Storrs (1889–1978) and Lucy Petronella Noel Storrs (1896–1978). Storrs attended Temple Grove School, East Sheen, Surrey, and Charterhouse School, where he held a classical scholarship, before coming up to Pembroke in 1900. Storrs gained a first in part I of the Classics tripos in 1903. Storrs then studied Arabic at Cambridge under Professor E. G. Browne, a Fellow of Pembroke and at that point the Sir Thomas Adams's professor of Arabic. After Cambridge, Storrs entered the Egyptian civil service working in the Finance Ministry of the Egyptian Government from 1904-1909. He later became Oriental Secretary to the British Agency under Sir Eldon Gorst. In 1917 Storrs served as assistant political officer to the Anglo-French mission of the Egyptian expeditionary force and was also attached to the secretariat of the British war cabinet. He was appointed military governor of Jerusalem on 27 December 1917, a post he held until 1920 when he became civil governor of Jerusalem and Judea (1920–26) upon the establishment of the civil government. He was appointed Governor of Cyprus in 1926. His next appointment, from 1932-1934 was as governor of Northern Rhodesia. After his return to the UK, Storrs served as member for East Islington on the London County Council between 1937 and 1945.

Storrs married Louisa Lucy (1876-1970) (née Littleton), daughter of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Algernon Charles Littleton and widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Arthur Clowes, in 1923. They had no children. Storrs was appointed CMG (1916), CBE (1919), and KCMG (1929); he was knighted in 1924. Storrs died on 1 November 1955, after an illness.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36326.