[2] He attended the CMS Grammar School, Lagos and in 1946 obtained a first grade Senior Cambridge Certificate with exemption from London Matriculation.

[3] Braithwaite returned to Nigeria in October 1952 to start the chief agency of the Law Union & Rock Insurance Company.

[3] In the 1950s he shared a flat on Hawley Street with Sonny Odogwu, who would also become a leader in the Nigerian corporate world, and Michael Kubenje.

The company specialized in the new fields, for Nigeria, of Marine Insurance and Life Assurance Underwriting.

[3] On 16 November 2000 President Olusegun Obasanjo made him a Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON).