He served as a second lieutenant in the Third Royal Tank Regiment.
Once worked as a trainee reporter for the Bristol Evening Post and as
assistant to the editor, Richard Hawkins.
He opened his first restaurant in Bristol (UK) when he was only 22.
British cook and broadcaster.
Had undergone five operations for bowel cancer at the time of his death from a sudden heart attack.
Son Patrick St John (b. 1968) with his first wife, and daughter Poppy Floyd with his second.
He was said to have once gone bankrupt after personally guaranteeing a £36,000 drinks order while running Floyd's Inn Pub, in Devon.
In reality he did not drink wine in excess, only whiskey.
In 2004, Floyd was banned from driving for 32 months and fined £1,500 after crashing his car into another vehicle while three-and-a-half times the alcohol limit.