Education
Braga studied at the Italian Convent School (later known as the Sacred Heart Canossian College) and Saint Joseph College in Hong Kong.
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Career
Braga came from a Macaense or Portuguese-descent family with long standing in the Portuguese colony of Macau. He went to India and studied at the University of Calcutta. He was hired by Robert Hotung for the Telegraph.
After eight years in Telegraph he became the Hong Kong correspondent for Reuters.
He gave up his career as a journalist and was appointed Chairman of China Light and Power Company in 1934 and 1938. He was the first Portuguese to be appointed to the Legislative Council between 1929 and 1937.
He received an Order of the British Empire in 1935. He was also the author of The Portuguese in Hong Kong and China.
Braga married Olive Pauline Pollard (16 January 1870 Lauceston, Tasmania, Australia - 13 February 1952).
Braga Circuit in Kowloon is named after him.
Membership
Braga was a member of the Sanitary Board from 1927 to 1930.
