1. Sir Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown was born on 23 March 1953 and is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament since 1992.
21 Facts About Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has represented North Cotswolds since 2024, having previously represented Cirencester and Tewkesbury, then The Cotswolds.
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was born on 23 March 1953 in Cambridge, the 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, granddaughter of Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 1st Baronet.
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was privately educated, first at Tormore School, in Deal, Kent and then at Eton College.
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown then studied at the Royal Agricultural College where he qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1975.
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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.
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown became the vice chairman of the Norfolk North Conservative Association in 1984.
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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.
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When newly elected Geoffrey Clifton-Brown became a member of the Environment Select Committee, where he remained until 1995.
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was then appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
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The constituency of Cirencester and Tewkesbury was abolished, but Geoffrey Clifton-Brown contested and was elected for the newly drawn constituency of Cotswold at the 1997 general election.
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In 2002, after Iain Duncan Smith became leader of the Conservative party, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown became the Shadow Minister for Local and Devolved Government Affairs.
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown returned to Westminster as assistant Chief Conservative Whip.
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The Cotswolds Conservative Party Association said that Geoffrey Clifton-Brown had acted within the rules.
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In 2019, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was asked to leave the Conservative Party Conference being held in Manchester, following a dispute with security staff who prevented him from entering a meeting room with a guest who did not have a relevant identification pass.
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown later apologised and described the incident as a "minor verbal misunderstanding".
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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.
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On 11 September 2024, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was elected Chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
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In 1979, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown married Alexandra, daughter of Wing Commander Denis Noel Peto-Shepherd, RAF.
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is a Freeman of the City of London.
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Geoffrey Clifton-Brown is a descendant of the Army officer and MP James Clifton Brown.