Brigadier Sir Henry Robert Kincaid Floyd, 5th Baronet[1] (7 May 1899 – 5 November 1968),[1] was a British soldier.
Floyd was educated at Eton College and at Sandhurst Military Academy. The fifth Baronet was a Brigadier in the 15th/19th Hussars and was Chief-of-Staff of the Eighth Army from 1944 to 1945. Between 1961 and 1968 he served as Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.[2] A fervent supporter of horseriding and fox hunting he was killed in a riding accident at the age of 69.[2]
The Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School in Aylesbury is named after him.[2]
Honorary titles | ||
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Preceded by Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, Bt |
Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire 1961–1968 |
Succeeded by John Young |
Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
Preceded by Henry Floyd |
Baronet (of Chearsley Hill, Bucks) 1915–1968 |
Succeeded by John Floyd |