The Floyd Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 March 1816 for General John Floyd.[1] He was second-in-command at the Battle of Seringapatam in 1799. Floyd's daughter Julia was the wife of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet. 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. The seventh Baronet was High Sheriff of Rutland in 1968. The fourth baronet's youngest son, Charles Murray Floyd, was a prominent businessman, surveyor and land agent.

Floyd baronets (1816)

The heir apparent to the baronetcy is David Henry Cecil Floyd (born 1956), elder son of the 7th Baronet.[7]

Arms

Coat of arms of Floyd baronets
Crest
A lion rampant reguardant Argent murally crowned Gules bearing a flag representing the standard of Tippoo Sultan flowing to the sinister Proper.
Escutcheon
Sable a lion rampant reguardant Argent on a chief embattled Or a sword erect Proper pommel and hilt Gold enfiled with an Eastern crown Gules between two tigers' faces also Proper.
Motto
Patiens Pulveris Atque Solis [9]

Notes

  1. ^ "No. 17102". The London Gazette. 23 January 1816. p. 133.
  2. ^ a b Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. p. 232.
  3. ^ "Floyd, Major Sir John". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ "Floyd, Captain Sir Henry Robert Peel". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ "Floyd, Brig. Sir Henry Robert Kincaid". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ "Floyd, Sir John (Duckett)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. ^ a b "Floyd, Sir Giles (Henry Charles)". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ^ "Henry Edward Cecil (Harry) Floyd 1958–2013". 27 March 2013.
  9. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1959.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom Preceded byOgle baronets Floyd baronets 30 March 1816 Succeeded byElphinstone baronets
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