Floyd baronets
The Floyd Baronetcy is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 March 1816 for General [Sir Sir John Floyd, 1st Baronet|John Floyd, 1st Baronet|John Floyd]. 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)
- Sir John Floyd, 1st Baronet
- Sir Henry Floyd, 2nd Baronet
- Sir John Floyd, 3rd Baronet
- Sir Henry Robert Peel Floyd, 4th Baronet
- Brigadier Sir Henry Robert Kincaid Floyd, 5th Baronet
- Sir John Duckett Floyd, 6th Baronet
- Sir Giles Henry Charles Floyd, 7th Baronet, married Lady Gillian Cecil, daughter of David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter.