Stafford Floyer-Acland

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

The son of Lieutenant-General Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland and Evelyn Stafford Still was educated in Marlborough School, Wiltshire. Floyer-Acland served in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and the 1st Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry as Lieutenant-Colonel. In the service of the 130 Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army, he became Brigadier in 1963. He was Brigadier in charge of Administration and Deputy Commander of the Land Forces in Borneo in 1965, and was Brigadier of Administration and Quartering, Northen Command in 1967. The same year, he was invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. A Deputy Colonel of the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry from 1972 to 1977, he became High Sheriff of Dorset in 1974.

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