The Viscount Ruffside | |
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![]() Clifton Brown in 1925 | |
Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom | |
In office 3 March 1943 –31 October 1951 | |
Monarch | George VI |
Prime Minister | Winston Churchill Clement Attlee |
Preceded by | Edward FitzRoy |
Succeeded by | William Morrison |
Member of Parliament for Hexham | |
In office 14 December 1918 –16 November 1923 | |
Preceded by | Richard Durning Holt |
Succeeded by | Victor Finney |
In office 29 October 1924 –4 October 1951 | |
Preceded by | Victor Finney |
Succeeded by | Rupert Speir |
Personal details | |
Born | 16 August 1879 |
Died | 5 May 1958 78) | (aged
Nationality | British |
Spouse | Violet Arbuthnot Wollaston (m. 1907) |
Relations | Howard Clifton Brown (brother) |
Children | Audrey Clifton Brown |
Parent(s) | James Clifton Brown Amelia Rowe Brown |
Education | Eton College |
Alma mater | Trinity College,Cambridge |
Douglas Clifton Brown,1st Viscount Ruffside, PC , JP , DL (16 August 1879 –5 May 1958) was a British politician who represented the Conservative Party (UK). He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1943 to 1951. Upon stepping down as Speaker he became the Viscount Ruffside;the peerage became extinct with his death.
Clifton Brown was born on 16 August 1879. He was the fifth of ten children born to Amelia (née Rowe) Brown and Colonel James Clifton Brown,a Liberal Party Member of Parliament. [1] His maternal grandparents were Charles Rowe,one of the partners in the Liverpool firm Graham,Rowe &Co.,and his Lima-born wife Sarah. [2] [3] His elder brother was Howard Clifton Brown [ citation needed ]
His paternal grandparents were Alexander Brown and his wife Sarah Benedict Brown. His great-grandfather was the banker and merchant Sir William Brown,1st Baronet,and his uncle was Liberal politician Sir Alexander Brown,1st Baronet.[ citation needed ]
Clifton Brown was educated at Eton and Trinity College,Cambridge. [4]
Clifton Brown was a lieutenant in the Lancashire Artillery when on 26 March 1902 he was commissioned a second-lieutenant in the 1st Dragoon Guards, [5] serving in South Africa during the end of the Second Boer War. He advanced to major in the regiment,and later became a lieutenant-colonel in the Volunteer force.
Clifton Brown was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Hexham from 1918 to 1923 and from 1924 to 1951. [6] He was a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1938 to 1943 and Speaker of the House of Commons from 1943 to 1951.[ citation needed ] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1941 [7] and raised to the peerage as Viscount Ruffside,of Hexham in the County of Northumberland,in 1951. [8] A private act of Parliament was passed to provide him with a pension as former Speaker. [9]
In 1907,Ruffside was married to Violet Cicely Kathleen Wollaston (1882–1969),daughter of Frederick Eustace Arbuthnot Wollaston. [10] They were the parents of one child: [11]
Ruffside died in May 1958,aged 78. As there were no surviving male issue from the marriage,the viscountcy became extinct. His widow,the Viscountess Ruffside,died in November 1969,aged 87.[ citation needed ]
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