High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bernard Richard Braine, Baron Braine of Wheatley, PC (24 June 1914 – 5 January 2000) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Hendon County Grammar School, and served with the North Staffordshire Regiment in the Second World War, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for over forty years, representing constituencies in Essex.