Stafford Floyer-Acland

Brigadier Stafford Nugent Floyer-Acland CBE, DL (23 December 1916 1994)[1] was a British soldier.

He was the only child of Lieutenant-General Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland and his wife Evelyn Stafford Still, daughter of Stafford Francis Still.[2] Floyer-Acland was educated in Marlborough College and entered then the British Army.[1] He was a second lieutenant in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in 1937[3] and after the Second World War, became major in 1950.[4]

Floyer-Acland was transferred as lieutenant-colonel to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the end of 1959[5] and was promoted to colonel in 1964.[6] Two years later, he became a brigadier,[7] serving as deputy commander of the land forces in Borneo. Subsequently he was Brigadier of Administration and Quartering, Northern Command in 1967,[1] for which he was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[8] He retired from active service in the following year[9] and in 1972, he became deputy colonel of the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry, a post he held until 1977.[10] He was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset in 1974[11] and became a Deputy Lieutenant for the same county in the year thereafter.[12]

On 14 April 1950, he married Patricia Egidia Hastings Emmott, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard St Barbe Emmott.[1] They had three children, two sons and one daughter.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "ThePeerage - Brigadier Stafford Nugent Floyer-Acland". Retrieved 10 December 2006.
  2. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1929). Armorial Families. vol. I. London: Hurst & Blackett. p. 691.
  3. The London Gazette: no. 34364. p. 621. 29 January 1937. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  4. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38852. p. 1090. 3 March 1950. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  5. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41959. p. 1290. 16 February 1960. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  6. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 43215. p. 253. 7 January 1964. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  7. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 43922. p. 2841. 11 March 1966. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  8. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44311. p. 5453. 12 May 1967. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  9. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44558. p. 3863. 29 March 1968. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  10. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 45723. p. 8284. 10 July 1972. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  11. The London Gazette: no. 46249. p. 4006. 28 March 1974. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
  12. The London Gazette: no. 46671. p. 10905. 28 August 1975. Retrieved 21 August 2009.
Military offices
Preceded by
David Tyacke
Deputy Colonel of the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry
1972–1977
Succeeded by
Thomas Michael Braithwaite


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