Early Life
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was born in Cambridge and educated at Tormore School, in Upper Deal, Kent and Eton College before attending the Royal Agricultural College where he qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1975. 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 Lang Wootton. He has been the managing director of a farming company since 1979. Clifton-Brown is a Freeman of the City of London and became the vice chairman of the Norfolk North Conservative Association in 1984, before being elected as chaiman in 1986. He resigned as chairman in 1991.
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