14 Facts About Geoff Braybrooke

Geoff Braybrooke was a member of the New Zealand Parliament from 1981 to 2002, representing the Labour Party.

Geoff Braybrooke was notably one of the party's more socially conservative MPs.

Geoff Braybrooke attended Chatham House after he won a state scholarship and there was exposed to snobbery and exclusion by fellow students as he came from a working class family.

Geoff Braybrooke joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1952 and served in the Korean War.

Geoff Braybrooke served in the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps from 1957 until 1970.

In 1959, Geoff Braybrooke married Janice Cater, and the couple went on to have two children.

Geoff Braybrooke represented the New Zealand Army in both soccer and basketball and was later an official with the New Zealand Amateur Athletics Association.

Geoff Braybrooke had joined the British Labour Party when only fourteen years old, and when he moved to New Zealand, he became a supporter of the New Zealand Labour Party.

Geoff Braybrooke made an abortive attempt to become Labour's candidate for the 1977 Mangere by-election.

Geoff Braybrooke supported Moore when he was successfully challenged by Helen Clark after Labour narrowly lost the 1993 election.

Geoff Braybrooke was one of the more socially conservative members of the Labour Party and was at times he was offside with liberal-minded colleagues.

Geoff Braybrooke opposed Helen Clark's rise to the Labour Party's leadership, remaining strongly loyal to her predecessor, Mike Moore.

Geoff Braybrooke was an appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1970.

In 1990, Geoff Braybrooke was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.