Brigadier Sir Henry Robert Kincaid Floyd, 5th Baronet (7 May 1899 – 5 November 1968), 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. A fervent supporter of horseriding and fox hunting he was killed in a riding accident at the age of 69. The Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School in Aylesbury is named after him.
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