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Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown (born March 23, 1953) British politician and farmer. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for the Cotswold consitutency.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was born in Cambridge and was educated at Tormore School, in Upper Deal, Kent and Eton College before attending the Royal Agricultural College where he qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1975. He began his career as a graduate estate surveyor at the Property Services Agency in Dorchester in 1975 and later in the year became an investment surveyor with Jones Lang Wootton. He has been the managing director of his own farming business since 1979. He became a Freeman of the City of London, which should come in handy should he wish to drive his sheep over London Bridge. He became the vice chairman of the Norfolk North Conservative Association in 1984, becoming its chairman 1986-1991.
He was selected to contest the safe Conservative
parliamentary constituency of
Cirencester and Tewkesbury following the retirement of the former
Cabinet minister
Nicholas Ridley. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown won the seat at the
1992 General Election with a majority of 16,058, and has remained a MP since. He made his
maiden speech on
June 12,
1992.
[1] On his election, he became a member of the
Environment Select Committee until
1995 when he was appointed the
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Douglas Hogg. His constituency was abolished but he contested and won the newly drawn seat of
Cotswold at the
1997 General Election, he returned to the
backbenches whilst
William Hague was the
Leader of the Opposition, and returned under the leadership of
Iain Duncan Smith became the
shadow minister for Local and Devolved Government Affairs in
2002. Since the
2005 General Election he has been the Assistant Chief
Whip. On the accession of David Cameron as Leader of the Conservative Party, he was appointed the Shadow Minister for
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Investment.
He is part of a Westminster dynasty going back to the 19th century and producing 7 MPs including two Speakers; Douglas Clifton Brown (1943-1951) and Harry Hylton-Foster (1959-1965) and incidentally, the speaker in between his two ancestors was William Morrison, who represented Cirencester and Tewkesbury - Geoffrey Clifton-Brown's original constituency. He enjoyed fox hunting and spoke passionately for its continuation. He owns thousands of acres in Norfolk, Gloucestershire and in Scotland. He married Alexandra Peto-Shepherd in 1979 and they have a son, Edward and a daughter, Jacqueline. The marriage has subsequently been dissolved.
On 9th March, Geoffrey CLifton-Brown attended Farmor's School Sixth Form, where he was 'grilled' about fox hunting by infamous army hard boy, Kelly Moy.
