18 Facts About Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

Sir Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown was born on 23 March 1953 and is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament for The Cotswolds.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown serves as the treasurer of the 1922 Committee.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was born in Cambridge, elder son and eldest of four children of farmer Robert Lawrence Clifton-Brown, of Maltings Farmhouse, Haverhill, Suffolk, a councillor and mayor of St Edmundsbury, Suffolk, and Elizabeth Lindsay, daughter of Ronald Arthur Vestey, of Great Thurlow Hall, Suffolk, DL, High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1961, and grand-daughter of Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 1st Baronet.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is a descendant of the Army officer and MP James Clifton Brown.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was educated at Tormore School, in Upper Deal, Kent and then Eton College, before attending the Royal Agricultural College where he qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1975.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown began his career as a graduate estate surveyor at the Property Services Agency in Dorchester and, later in 1975, became an investment surveyor with Jones Lang Wootton.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown became the vice chairman of the Norfolk North Conservative Association in 1984.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was elected as Constituency Chairman in 1986, a position he held until he resigned in 1991 in order to stand for election as a Conservative candidate.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown retained the seat at the 1992 general election, with a majority of 16,058, and made his maiden speech on 12 June 1992.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was then appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

The Cotswolds Conservative Party Association said that Geoffrey Clifton-Brown had acted within the rules.

In 2019, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was asked to leave the Conservative Party Conference being held in Manchester, after a dispute with security staff who prevented him from entering a meeting room with a guest who did not have a relevant identification pass.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has previously been voted as the worst MP in parliament in a survey of constituents ranking MPs on categories such as attendance and helping constituents.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is a partner in the East Beckham partnership, which engaged in arable farming in Norfolk.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has five residential properties in London, purchased between 1994 and 2017.

In 1979, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown married Alexandra, daughter of Wing Commander Denis Noel Peto-Shepherd, RAF, of Great Durnford, Wiltshire.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has an interest in UK-China relations and is chair of the Conservative Friends of the Chinese.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is a Freeman of the City of London.