Brigadier-General Howard Clifton Brown (3 April 1868 – 11 September 1946)[1] was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newbury.
His younger brother, Douglas Clifton Brown, served as Speaker of the House of Commons and was later elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Viscount Ruffside.
[4] He was commissioned into the 12th Lancers as a second-lieutenant on 8 June 1889, promoted to lieutenant on 3 September 1890, and to captain on 1 October 1896.
[8] Clifton Brown was elected to the House of Commons for Newbury at an unopposed by-election on 6 June 1922.
[9] However, in the following year's general election he lost the seat by just 41 votes to his Liberal opponent, Innes Harold Stranger.