Education
Clifton-Brown was educated at Tormore School, in Upper Deal, Kent and then Eton College, before he attended the Royal Agricultural College where he qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1975.
Clifton-Brown was educated at Tormore School, in Upper Deal, Kent and then Eton College, before he attended the Royal Agricultural College where he qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1975.
Clifton-Brown is a British Conservative Party politician and comes from a family with a history of parliamentary service (obvs). Clifton-Brown has interests in wildlife conservation, also country living and has been the managing director of a farming company since 1979. He is also a Freeman of the City of London.
He began his career as a graduate estate surveyor at the Property Services Agency in Dorchester in 1975 and later in that year became an investment surveyor with Jones Language Wootton and became the vice chairman of the Norfolk North Conservative Association in 1984.
He 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. During 1991 Clifton-Brown was selected as the candidate for the then Conservative parliamentary constituency of Cirencester and Tewkesbury, following the retirement of the former Cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley.
Clifton-Brown was then appointed as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. After Iain Duncan Smith beame leader of the Conservative Party, Clifton-Brown became the Shadow Minister for Local and Devolved Government Affairs in 2002.
After the 2005 general election, he retained the seat of Cotswold and returned to Westminster as assistant Chief Conservative 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. After the 2010 election and the formation of the subsequent Coalition Government, Clifton-Brown returned to the back benches and his constituency, also making overseas visits in his role as Chairman of the Conservative Party"s International Office.
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He is the Member of Parliament for the United Kingdom constituency of The Cotswolds, Vice-President of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists, as well as the Chairman of the International Office.
When newly elected he became a member of the Environment Select Committee, where he worked until 1995. Clifton-Brown is related to seven other previous members of Parliament, including Geoffrey Benedict Clifton-Brown, also Douglas Clifton Brown and Harry Hylton-Foster who both became Speaker of the British House of Commons.
Howard Clifton Brown was elected as member of Parliament on several occasions.