Early Life
He was born on 6 April 1920 in Holcombe, Somerset. His father was a Methodist Minister and a Doctor of Theology who had served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps in World War I. Braham was educated at public school in Taunton in Somerset and Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, Lancashire.
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