Frederick Solly-Flood


Sir Frederick Richard Solly-Flood 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 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.