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Bernard Braine

Sir Bernard Braine, Baron Braine of Wheatley, PC (June 21, 1914 - January 5, 2000) was a politician in the United Kingdom. He served as a Member of Parliament (initially for Billericay) for the Conservatives from 1950 to 1992, becoming Father of the House in 1987.

He was chairman of the National Council on Alcoholism , and was a member of the Parliamentary Groups on Human Rights and against abortion. He was knighted in 1982, stepped down from Parliament in 1992, and was made a life peer.

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