Stafford Floyer-Acland
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Early life
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]
He was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1]
Career
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]
Personal life
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]
Floyer-Acland died in 1994.
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