Sir | Sir Walter Scott | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Robert Peel | Charles James Napier | Nathaniel Lyon | Nathaniel P. Banks | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet | Napier | Sir Raylton Dixon | Sir Harold Hillier Gardens | Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet | Napier, New Zealand | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet | William Francis Patrick Napier | Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet | Nathaniel Bowditch | Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet | Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala | Nathaniel Philbrick | Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet | Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland | Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever | Sir Nigel | Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet, of Kandy | Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet | Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet | Sir Henry Rawlinson | Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet |
Diana Napier, his mother, was the great great granddaughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier the builder of Crichell House, and it was through her that the house passed to the Sturts.
He was the son of Henry Sturt, great-grandson of Humphrey Sturt by his wife Diana (through which marriage Crichel House in Dorset came into the Sturt family), daughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet, and the Honourable Catherine, daughter of the third Baron of the 1642 creation.