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.
Biography[]
Brown was the son of James Clifton Brown, an earlier MP for the same constituency, by his wife Amelia Rowe.
He served as a Captain with the 12th Lancers in the Second Boer War in South Africa 1899-1901, and was promoted brevet Major in November 1900.[2] From 1908 to 1912 he was commander of the 12th Lancers, before he was given command of the South Eastern Mounted Brigade 1913-16 and served in the First World War. He resigned as Brigadier general.[3]
Brown was elected to the House of Commons for Newbury at an unopposed by-election on 6 June 1922.[4] However, in the following year's general election he lost the seat by just 41 votes to his Liberal opponent, Innes Harold Stranger.[4]
At the 1924 general election he was re-elected as Newbury's MP, which he remained until stepping down at the 1945 general election.[4]
He married, in 1903, Mary Eirene Hodges, daughter of Sir Henry Hodges, and had three daughters.[3]
References[]
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)}[better source needed] }}
- ↑ "No. 27359". 27 September 1901. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27359/page/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 BROWN, Brig.-Gen. Howard Clifton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 293. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
External links[]
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Howard Clifton Brown
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