Charles Murray Floyd (12 September 1905 – 27 June 1971) was an English businessman, surveyor, land agent and local politician.
He was later attached to the 21st Army Group in the last two years of the war, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
[1] In 1955 he became chairman of Wiltshire-based Avon India Rubber Company Limited, which soon acquired its local rival George Spencer, Moulton Ltd; he retired from those posts in 1968.
[4] Floyd was also keenly involved with land management and nature conservation; he was a member of the Forestry Commission's Committee for England from 1954 and was President of the Royal Forestry Society of England and Wales from 1954 to 1956; he was also a member of the Royal Commission on Common Land from 1955 to 1958 and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
[1] In 1948, Floyd married Mary Elizabeth Fleetwood Fuller, OBE, JP, DL (1916–1996), the daughter of Major Robert Fleetwood Fuller (1875–1955), JP, DL, of Great Chalfield, Melksham, Wiltshire (of which county he was High Sheriff in 1926), and the widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick John Salvin Boyle (1910–1944).