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Stafford Nugent Floyer-Acland, (23 December 1916 – 1994) was a British soldier.

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. He was educated at

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and the

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Career

He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the

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in 1937 and, after the

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, became major in 1950. Floyer-Acland was transferred as lieutenant colonel to the

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army. It officially existed from 1881 to 1968, but its predecessors go back to 1755. In 1968, the regiment was amalgamated with the Somerset and Cornwall ...

in the end of 1959, and was promoted to colonel in 1964. Two years later, he became a brigadier, serving as deputy commander of the land forces in

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. Subsequently he was Brigadier of Administration and Quartering, Northern Command in 1967, for which he was appointed a

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. He retired from active service in the following year and in 1972, he became deputy colonel of the

Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry (SCLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army. It was formed in October 1959 by the merger of the Somerset Light Infantry and the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and was itself merged with ...

, a post he held until 1977. He was appointed

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in 1974, and became a Deputy Lieutenant for the same county in the year thereafter.

Personal life

On 14 April 1950, Floyer-Acland married Patricia Egidia Hastings Emmott, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Richard St Barbe Emmott. They had three children, two sons and one daughter. Floyer-Acland died in 1994.

References

1916 births 1994 deaths British Army personnel of the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation British Army personnel of World War II Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers High Sheriffs of Dorset King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry officers People educated at Marlborough College British Army brigadiers Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst {{UK-army-bio-stub