Sir Albert Newby Braithwaite (2 September 1893 – 20 October 1959) was a British

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politician. He was the son of Albert Braithwaite, one time

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, and Patti Braithwaite. He was born in

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,''1901 England Census'' and educated at

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and the

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. He served in the

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during

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and was appointed a member of the British Military Commission to the United States. He was awarded a DSO in 1918. He was elected as

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for the Buckrose constituency in the

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at a by-election in 1926, following the resignation of the Conservative MP

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. He held the seat until the 1945 general election, when the Labour Party did not contest the seat and he was defeated by the

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candidate George Wadsworth. He was knighted in that year and was director of a number of companies. Braithwaite returned to the

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at a

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in 1951, as MP for

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, succeeding the Conservative Norman Bower, who had resigned. He held the seat until his death by suicide in 1959, weeks after retaining the seat in that year's general election.

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