Sir Albert Newby Braithwaite DSO

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 (2 September 1893 – 20 October 1959) was a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician. He was the son of Albert Braithwaite, one time Lord Mayor of Leeds and Patti Braithwaite.

He was educated at Woodhouse Grove School

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, Leeds Grammar School

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 and the University of Leeds

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. He served in the Yorkshire Hussars

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 during World War I

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 and was appointed a member of the British Military Commission to the USA. He was awarded a DSO in 1918.

He was elected as Member of Parliament

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 for the Buckrose constituency

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 in East Yorkshire

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 at a by-election

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 in 1926, following the resignation of the Conservative MP Guy Gaunt

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. He held the seat until the 1945 general election

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, when the Labour Party

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 did not contest the seat and he was defeated by the Liberal Party

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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 House of Commons

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 at a by-election

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 in 1951, as MP for Harrow West, succeeding the Conservative Norman Bower

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, who had resigned. He held the seat until his death by suicide in 1959.

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