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Sir Frederick Richard Solly-Flood (19 March 1829 – 7 April 1909) was a

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officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.

Military career

Solly-Flood was the son of Frederick Solly-Flood (1801-1888) of Ballynaslaney House,

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, the attorney-general of Gibraltar. He was commissioned into the

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in 1859. He became a captain in the 82nd Regiment of Foot in 1860 and, having been appointed a

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in 1877, became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1884, remaining in that post until 1886. He subsequently commanded a District in

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. He lived at Ballynaslaney House in County Wexford.''The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland'' by Edward Walford, p.333
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Family

In 1863 he married Constance Eliza Frere of Porthmawr, Crickhowell, Breconshire. He was succeeded by his son

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References

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