Name Frederick Solly-Flood Rank Major general Service/branch British Army | Awards Order of the Bath Died April 7, 1909 Allegiance United Kingdom | |
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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.
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Military career
Solly-Flood was the son of Frederick Solly-Flood (1801–1838) of Ballynaslaney House, County Wexford. He was commissioned into the 53rd Regiment of Foot in 1859. He became a Captain in the 82nd Regiment of Foot in 1860 and, having been appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1877, became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1884 remaining in that post until 1886. He subsequently commanded a District in Bombay. He lived at Ballynaslaney House in County Wexford.
Family
In 1863 he married Constance Eliza Frere of Porthmawr, Crickhowell, Breconshire. He was succeeded by his son Arthur.