Francis Floud, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrancis Floud
British diplomat
Date of Birth: 18-May-1875
Date of Death: 17-Apr-1965
Profession: diplomat
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Francis Floud
- Sir Francis Lewis Castle Floud KCB KCSI KCMG (18 May 1875 – 17 April 1965) was a British civil servant and diplomat.
- Very unusually, he received three knighthoods for his public services. Francis Floud came from a clerical family.
- He was educated at Cranleigh School and King's College London, having refused to go to Oxford University because he did not wish to enter the church; his younger brother went in his stead.
- He entered the Board of Agriculture at a junior level in 1894 and, while working there, qualified as a barrister of Lincoln's Inn. He served in a variety of posts before being appointed, in 1920, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
- He was Chairman of the Board of Customs and Excise from 1927 to 1930 and then Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour (1930-1934) during the very difficult period following the financial crisis, when unemployment and other benefits were cut by the National government.
- He served as British High Commissioner to Canada from 1934-1938.
- and was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 1938 New Year Honours.From 1938-1940 he chaired the Bengal Land Revenue Commission, for which he was appointed a Knight Commander to the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in the 1941 New Year Honours and, in his retirement, a number of other public bodies.Francis Floud married, in 1909, Phyllis, daughter of Colonel Everard A.
- Ford.
- They had two sons, Peter Floud and Bernard Floud MP and a daughter Phyllis, who married Peter du Sautoy.
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