Frederick Solly-Flood

Major-General Sir Frederick Richard Solly-Flood KCB (19 March 1829 – 7 April 1909) was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.

Sir Frederick Richard Solly-Flood
Born19 March 1829
Died7 April 1909
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankMajor-General
Commands heldRoyal Military College Sandhurst
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Military career

Solly-Flood was the son of Frederick Solly-Flood (1801-1888) of Ballynaslaney House, County Wexford, the attorney-general of Gibraltar.[1]

He was commissioned into the 53rd Regiment of Foot in 1859.[2] He became a Captain in the 82nd Regiment of Foot in 1860[3] and, having been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1877,[4] became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1884, remaining in that post until 1886.[5] He subsequently commanded a District in Bombay.[6]

He lived at Ballynaslaney House in County Wexford.[7]

Family

In 1863 he married Constance Eliza Frere of Porthmawr, Crickhowell, Breconshire.[8] He was succeeded by his son Arthur.[8]

References
  1. Burke, Bernard (1912). Genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland. p. 236.
  2. "No. 21011". The London Gazette. 21 August 1849. p. 2596.
  3. "No. 22437". The London Gazette. 23 October 1860. p. 3800.
  4. "SOLLY-FLOOD, Maj.-Gen. Frederick". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1641.
  5. "No. 25372". The London Gazette. 1 July 1884. p. 3011.
  6. "No. 26144". The London Gazette. 17 March 1891. p. 1482.
  7. The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland by Edward Walford, p.333
  8. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles. "Armorial families: a directory of gentlemen of coat-armour". Retrieved 17 November 2019.
Military offices
Preceded by
Frederick Middleton		 Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst
1884–1886		 Succeeded by
Aylmer Cameron
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