Stafford Floyer-Acland

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

Stafford Floyer-Acland
Born(1916-12-23)23 December 1916
Died1994 (aged 77–78)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1935–1968
RankBrigadier
Battles/warsSecond World War
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
AwardsCommander of the Order of the British Empire
RelationsLieutenant General Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland (father)

Floyer-Acland 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 at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1] He was commissioned 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 appointed 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, Floyer-Acland 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. "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. "No. 34364". The London Gazette. 29 January 1937. p. 621.
  4. "No. 38852". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 March 1950. p. 1090.
  5. "No. 41959". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 February 1960. p. 1290.
  6. "No. 43215". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 January 1964. p. 253.
  7. "No. 43922". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 March 1966. p. 2841.
  8. "No. 44311". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 May 1967. p. 5453.
  9. "No. 44558". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 March 1968. p. 3863.
  10. "No. 45723". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 July 1972. p. 8284.
  11. "No. 46249". The London Gazette. 28 March 1974. p. 4006.
  12. "No. 46671". The London Gazette. 28 August 1975. p. 10905.
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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