Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside

The Right Honourable The Viscount Ruffside PC DL JP


Speaker of the House of Commons
In office 3 March 1943 – 31 October 1951
Monarch	George VI
Preceded by	Edward FitzRoy
Succeeded by	William Morrison
Personal details
Born	16 August 1879
Died	5 May 1958 (1958-05-06) (aged 78)
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Violet Arbuthnot Wollaston(b. 4 Jul 1882\ d. 17 Nov 1969)
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge

Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside PC, DL, JP (16 August 1879 – 5 May 1958) was a British politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1943 to 1951.

Background and education

Brown was the son of Colonel James Clifton Brown, grandson of Sir William Brown, 1st Baronet. His mother was Amelia (née Rowe) while Howard Clifton Brown was his elder brother.^[1] He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2]

Military career

Brown was a lieutenant in the Lancashire Artillery when on 26 March 1902 he was commissioned a second-lieutenant in the 1st Dragoon Guards,^[3] 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.

Political career

Brown was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hexham from 1918 to 1923 and from 1924 to 1951.^[1]^[4] 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.^[1] He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1941^[1]^[5] and raised to the peerage as Viscount Ruffside, of Hexham in the County of Northumberland, in 1951.^[6]

Family

Lord Ruffside married Violet Cicely Kathleen Wollaston, daughter of Frederick Eustace Arbuthnot Wollaston,^[7] in 1907. There were no surviving male issue from the marriage. However, their daughter Audrey Clifton Brown married Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the House of Commons, and was created a life peeress as Baroness Hylton-Foster in honour of her husband in 1965. Lord Ruffside died in May 1958, aged 78, when the viscountcy became extinct. The Viscountess Ruffside died in November 1969, aged 87.^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 Lundy, Darryl. "Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st and last Viscount Ruffside". Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
↑ "Brown, Douglas Clifton (BRWN898DC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 27419. p. 2076. 25 March 1902.
↑ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Hertford to Honiton
↑ leighrayment.com Privy Counsellors 1915–1968
↑ The London Gazette: no. 39408. p. 6523. 14 December 1951.
↑ "d". Kittybrewster.com. Retrieved 15 July 2010.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Douglas Clifton Brown
Portraits of Douglas Clifton Brown at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Richard Durning Holt	Member of Parliament for Hexham 1918–1923	Succeeded by Victor Finney
Preceded by Victor Finney	Member of Parliament for Hexham 1924–1951	Succeeded by Rupert Speir
Political offices
Preceded by Robert Croft Bourne	Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means 1938–1943	Succeeded by James Milner
Preceded by Sir Dennis Herbert	Chairman of Ways and Means 1943	Succeeded by James Milner
Preceded by Hon. Edward FitzRoy	Speaker of the House of Commons 1943–1951	Succeeded by William Morrison
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Viscount Ruffside 1951–1958	Extinct

Speakers of the House of Commons

House of Commons
of England

14th century	Hungerford De la Mare Pickering Guildesborough Waldegrave Pickering Bussy Cheney Doreward Savage Redford

15th century	Esturmy Tiptoft Chaucer Stourton Hungerford Chaucer Redman Beauchamp Flower Hunt Chaucer Baynard Russell Walton Vernon Tyrell Alington Bowes Burley Tresham Say Popham Oldhall Thorpe Charlton Wenlock Tresham Green Strangeways Wood Catesby Lovell Mordaunt Fitzwilliam Empson Drury Englefield

16th century	Dudley Sheffield Nevill More Audley Wingfield Rich Hare Moyle Baker Dyer Pollard Broke Higham Cordell Gargrave Williams Onslow Wray Bell Popham Puckering Snagge Coke Yelverton

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18th century	Harley Smith

House of Commons
of Great Britain

18th century	Smith R. Onslow Bromley Hanmer Compton A. Onslow Cust Norton Cornwall Grenville Addington

House of Commons
of the United Kingdom

19th century	Addington Mitford Abbot Manners-Sutton Abercromby Shaw-Lefevre Denison Brand Peel Gully

20th century	Lowther Whitley FitzRoy Brown Morrison Hylton-Foster King Lloyd Thomas Weatherill Boothroyd

21st century	Martin Bercow

Chairmen of Ways and Means

Grant Bernal Osborne Greene Bernal Osborne Wilson-Patten Pleydell-Bouverie Fitzroy Massey Dodson Bonham Carter Raikes Playfair Otway Courtney Mellor Lowther Lawson Emmott Whitley Hope Young Hope Herbert Clifton Brown Milner MacAndrew Touche Anstruther-Gray Maybray-King Storey Fletcher Irving Grant-Ferris Thomas Murton Weatherill Walker Morris Haselhurst Hoyle

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