James Clifton Brown JP (13 February 1841 – 5 January 1917)[1] was a British Liberal Party[2] Member of Parliament (MP).

[3] His elder brother was Sir William Richmond Brown, 2nd Baronet, the High Sheriff of Northamptonshire, and his younger brother was the Liberal politician Sir Alexander Brown, 1st Baronet.

His paternal grandfather was the banker and merchant Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet.

Brown was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts.

Clifton Brown's mother-in-law was born in Lima, Peru in 1825 to Friedrich (Frederick) Pfeiffer, an Hanoverian-born flour merchant, and his Quakeress wife who left her sect to join her husband's faith; the Pfeiffers moved to Lima in 1821.