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Sir Henry Floyd, 5th Baronet

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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 the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. 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, as is part of the postgraduate medical centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.[2]

Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire
1961–1968 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baronet
(of Chearsley Hill, Bucks)
1915–1968 		Succeeded by

References

  1. ^ a b thePeerage.com
  2. ^ a b c 20th century Lords Lieutenant

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