On 21 March 1866, he married Amelia Rowe, daughter of Charles Rowe and Sarah Amelia Pfeiffer.[7] His father-in-law Charles Rowe (1819–1876) was born in Jamaica and was of mixed race.
Charles Rowe was son of planter Charles Rowe, Sr. and his 28-years younger mistress Mary Gauntlett (b. 1782), a free black woman who owned slaves herself.
Mary Gauntlett was born out of wedlock to Elizabeth Roche (De La Roche, Delaroche; 1761–1812), a half black woman described in 1795 as "a free mulatto", and Lieutenant William Gauntlett; Elizabeth Roche was the daughter of Mary, "a freed Negro" born around 1740, and white planter John De La Roche.
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.[8][9] James Clifton Brown and Amelia had ten children, four daughters and six sons, including:[7]
Elsie Clifton Brown (1861–1958), who married Sir Evelyn Ridley Bradford, 2nd Bt
One of his grandsons, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (1899–1983), followed him into Parliament, and his great-great-grandson, also Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (b. 1953), is currently serving in Parliament.[11]
^ abCraig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 155–156. ISBN0-900178-26-4.
^ abcWho is Who 1914. London: Adam & Charles Black Ltd. 1914. p. 263.