Stafford Floyer-Acland

Brigadier Stafford Nugent Floyer-Acland CBE, DL (23 December 1916 – 1994)^[1] was a British soldier.

He was the only child of Lieutenant-General Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland and his wife Evelyn Stafford Still, daughter of Stafford Francis Still.^[2] Floyer-Acland was educated in Marlborough College and entered then the British Army.^[1] He was 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 awarded 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]

On 14 April 1950, he married Patricia Egidia Hastings Emmott, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Richard St Barbe Emmott.^[1] They had three children, two sons and one daughter.^[1]

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