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Frederick Solly-Flood (British Army officer)

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

Military career

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

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.

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