Charles Floyd was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1927.Burke's Peerage, vol. 1 (2003), p. 1475. He was a partner in the surveyors and land agents company Powlett & Floyd of Bath from 1935 to 1955 and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, but his career was interrupted by service in the Second World War; he joined the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1939 and served with them until 1940; 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). In 1955 he became chairman of two firms, Avon Rubber Company Ltd and George Spencer Morton Ltd; he retired from those posts in 1968."Mr C. M. Floyd", The Times, 29 June 1971, p. 17. Floyd was also keenly involved with land management groups; 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. He was Sheriff of Wiltshire for 1962–63 and councillor on Wiltshire County Council from 1965 till his death on 27 June 1971.
