About Frederick Solly-Flood
Lived 1829 – 1909 (aged 80). Frederick Solly-Flood was a British military 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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British Army general
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Frederick Solly-Flood was born on 19 March 1829.
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Frederick Solly-Flood died on 7 April 1909.
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Frederick Solly-Flood was a military officer.
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Frederick Solly-Flood was British.
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