Story was born on 28 January 1835 at Rosneath, Dunbartonshire, and educated at the universities of Edinburgh, Street Andrews and Heidelberg. In 1859, he was assistant minister at Saint Andrew"s Church, Montreal, and in February 1860 was inducted as Minister of Rosneath in succession to his father.
University of Edinburgh. University of Street Andrews.
In 1887, he removed to Glasgow as Professor of Church History. In 1898, he became Principal of the University, succeeding John Caird. He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1894, and its Principal Clerk from that year until his death on 13 January 1907.
Story had been appointed in 1886 to a chaplaincy to Queen Victoria, and was appointed a Chaplain-in-Ordinary in Scotland to King Edward VII in October 1901.
He vigorously opposed the action of Bishop Welldon, then metropolitan of Calcutta, in excluding Scottish chaplains and troops from the use of garrison churches in India because these had received episcopal consecration. He was characterized by an absolutely fearless honesty, which sometimes gave offence, but at the basis of his nature there was a warm, tender and sympathetic heart, incapable of meanness or intrigue.
