From the very early stages of the familys involvement in slavery and the sugar trade, through the career of Sir James Drax in Barbados during the 17th century, the Drax dynasty were able to generate extraordinary wealth through the cultivation of sugar by enslaved Africans.. half brother. Dont they have a responsibility as well?. The Drax family received 4,293 pounds, 12 shillings and 6 pence more than 500,000 today. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. His wife is Elsebet Drax (m. 1998), Zara Drax (m. 19851997). Genealogy profile for Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor, MP. Richard Drax is the Conservative MP for South Dorset, and has been an MP continuously since 6 May 2010. You drive in and it looks like a plantation might look back in the 17th century. A database created by University College London showed that Richard Draxs ancestor John Sawbridge Erle-Drax MP, who also lived at Charborough Park, received 4,293 12s 6d a very large sum in 1836 in compensation for freeing 189 slaves. And he has been vocal in the debate about Covid within the party, joining the Tory MPs who have rebelled against the government over its lockdown measures. The Drax wealth may be hidden by a great wall of secrecy and unanswered questions away from prying eyes. We have estimated Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (born 29 January 1958) is a British Conservative politician, journalist and landowner, serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset since 2010 . The "new" Drax killed Lunatik and one of the Blood Brothers. He served across the world, including Germany, Cyprus, Kenya, Brunei, Hong Kong, the United States, London and three operational tours in Northern Ireland. [28], At least six of his ancestors, including John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax and the 17th Lord Dunsany, were Members of Parliament for Dorset and Gloucestershire between the 1680s and 1880s. He relinquished his British Army commission on 9 September 1987, thereby retiring after nine years' service as a Coldstreamer. Barbados is not a Third World country, he said. But for all his wealth and power, there is a dark shadow hanging over Richard Drax his familys historical links with slavery in the plantations of the West Indies, which are now prompting mounting calls from former Caribbean colonies for reparations. Genealogy for Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor (Grosvenor), MP (1762 - 1819) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Chinese labourers (paid less than the Barbadian minimum wage) construct yuan-funded roads and buildings. [1] "The Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other", he said. At Olantigh, large picture galleries and collections of art, Venetian Towers and garden ornaments, such as a huge fountain at the entrance, were added. In response, Drax replied in the Dorset Echo that: 'I cant be held responsible for something that happened 300 or 400 years ago. The plantation relied on slaves for almost 200 years and the MP said his ancestors involvement was regrettable. If this request is refused, the government intends to take the matter to an international arbitration court. Since his wealth is based on murder, kidnap and theft, the least he can do is return his plantation in Barbados to its rightful owners, the people who live there now. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Drax is only the first target, he told me, evidently fired up for this great new crusade. Should individual Danes be forced to compensate the United Kingdom for the rape and pillage of Viking invasions? His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. As a reminder of the links between Dorset and Barbados a road that bisects the Charborough estate is called Sugar Hill. The Drax Hall plantation is not referred to in Richard Draxs Register of Members Interests declaration, and we could not find any family document referring directly to the plantations in the public domain since his great-grandmothers will in 1916, when the Baroness Dunsany bequeathed her estates and plantations in Barbados to her son, Richards grandfather. [16] Drax praised May's successor, Boris Johnson, for achieving a trade deal in December 2020,[17] but in February 2021 expressed concern over the Northern Ireland Protocol and disruption to trade in Northern Ireland. We are establishing a fund into which families, corporations and establishments like universities that were implicated in some way in the crime of enslavement can pay. The Park, with its outstanding garden and ancient deer park, is just a part of the 14,000 acres of Charborough estate that makes Drax and his family the largest individual landowners in Dorset. In 1827 he married Jane, the daughter of Richard Erle-Drax Grosvenor and a member of the Drax family which was so prominent among the slave-owners of Barbados. Christianwas born circa 1341, in Yorkshire, England. A wealthy Tory MP is facing demands to pay reparations for his familys part in the Caribbean slave trade after the Observer revealed that he now controls the plantation where his ancestors created the first slave-worked sugar plantation in the British empire almost 400 years ago. View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. Lynne added, "Richard Drax is immensely wealthywith wealth exceeding 150 million. Once that process is completed, I will of course register it in proper accordance with the rules.. Once that process is completed, I will of course register it in proper accordance with the rules. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. The strongest-looking men could fetch 20 3,500 in todays money; lusting plantation officers would also buy young girls for their harems. In 2013, the BBC noted that his ancestor John Erle-Drax, who had an estate in Barbados, was recorded in a database created by University College London as having received 4,293 12s 6d in compensation for 189 slaves when slavery was abolished. Pictured:Richard Drax. He was promoted captain on 10 March 1986. But he is responsible for what he does now. About 20m a huge sum was then paid out to compensate slave owners. The MP for the nearby corrupt borough of Wareham, Dorset, he appears to have never said anything in the Commons save for asking the Speaker that a window be opened (though this story may be apocryphal). This is a part of the nations history, from which we must all learn.. [2][3], Drax passed out from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned in the British Army joining the Coldstream Guards on 9 December 1978 as a second lieutenant. Richard, who inherited the estate in 2017 on the death of his father, Walter, is the seventh family member to sit in the Commons. It provided a sound education for the superstar singer Rihanna. [1], Drax is the eldest son of Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (19282017)[27] JP DL and The Hon. For full article, see https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/12/hes-the-mp-with-the-downton-abbey-lifestyle-but-the-shadow-of-slavery-hangs-over-the-gilded-life-of-richard-drax. Mr Drax has no plans to return any time soon.. One of only three Jacobean mansions in the Americas, the official Barbados tourism website lists it as one of the islands seven wonders. . As a writer who abhors racism in all its forms, I find it uncomfortable to defend Mr Drax, an old Etonian former Coldstream Guard on the right of the Conservative Party. Richard Rider (Nova). That is for Third World countries. The Foreign Secretary's lead amongst MPs grows", "The ten landowners who own one-sixth of Dorset", "Obituary of Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax", "MP Richard Drax, his wife, the lesbian housekeeper and the threesome that never was", "Barbados plans to make Tory MP pay reparations for family's slave past", "Benedict Cumberbatch's ancestors got rich from slavery in Barbados. Richard Drax has replaced a decade of accounts for four farming firms. I've never done it before and never done it since but it was a real moment of thoughtlessness and it won't happen again. Richard Drax MP's 150m personal fortune was extracted on his ancestors' network of Caribbean plantations, where 30,000 slaves lost their lives. When contacting this Member, they should be addressed as Richard Drax. [23] After Braverman was eliminated, he supported Liz Truss. Though Barbados appears to be prospering, and is now rated a high-income economy, he describes it as a post-slavery society still struggling to recover. He did this after we asked Companies House about his finances. Together . Drax Hall is an imposing, grey stone residence built for a 17thcentury entrepreneur who revolutionised the Caribbean sugar industry, and in so doing helped make Britain the wealthiest nation on earth. David Comissiong, the Barbados ambassador to Caricom, said on Friday: There have been centuries of looting and siphoning off the wealth which should have remained in Barbados. Here is a key to explain those letter codes: Prominent Liverpool merchant and slave-trader. Something went wrong, please try again later. In January 2016, the Labour Party unsuccessfully proposed an amendment in Parliament that would have required private landlords to make their homes "fit for human habitation". In Bridgetowns newly republican corridors of power, there is, of course, a wholly different viewpoint. Sir Reginald Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany thereby being in remainder to the ancient Barony of Dunsany (cr. Here is proof that Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, has a controlling interest in the 621-acre Drax Hall Estate in Barbados. This is a part of the nations history, from which we must all learn., The Barbadian historian Beckles, however, told the Observer: It is no answer for Richard Drax to say it has nothing to do with him when he is the owner and the inheritor. Yet to my mind there is something fundamentally unfair about singling out any individual and holding him responsible for the horrors of slavery; a practice that was mercifully outlawed five generations before he was born after an abolition campaign led by Britain. Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster. John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge was the eldest son of Samuel Elias Sawbridge (b.1769 - d.1851), an MP and landowner, and the grandson of John Sawbridge (1732?-1795), MP for Hythe 1768-74 and for London 1774-1795 and Lord Mayor of London in 1775. Black African people did that, but Ive never heard anyone say they should be held responsible. not a Conservative politician, journalist, landowner and former British Army officer, serving as MP for S.Dorset Bere Regis, England Joined October 2020 1,421 Following 1,395 Followers Tweets & replies Media Pinned Tweet Biography. In the centre of the park is the Grade I-listed mansion. [31], Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Last edited on 12 February 2023, at 22:40, July 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election, "He's the MP with the Downton Abbey lifestyle. Drax responded to the incident by saying: "I popped in to get some literature and very thoughtlessly parked on those lines which I immediately regretted and apologise to the organisation straight away. The Erle family had owned Charborough House, Dorset, since the C16th and through the marriage, Drax took possession of it. "He could donate his inheritance to the island on which it stands and still have plenty of property left.. His properties stretch from North Yorkshire to Dorset, where he lives in a Grade I-listed stately home with some 14,000 acres and his estimated worth is 150 million. Furthermore, he has been publicly criticised for failing to file his company accounts on time and omitting to declare his ownership of the Barbados plantation in the parliamentary Register of Members Interests. This was a crime against humanity and we impose upon him [Mr Drax] and his family a moral responsibility to contribute to the effort to repair the damage.. Ex-Lib Dem leader Vince Cable said: I hope the recently further-enriched Mr Drax pays some attention to polite representations from the Caribbean Community Reparations Commission. How did Enoch Powell, a man with no shame, come to haunt our times? Richard Drax registered the details as the Sunday Mirror revealed his ancestors' past - and how he still makes a packet from the business. Oscar Cainer tells all. [22], Drax endorsed Suella Braverman during the July 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. Richard Drax is facing calls for an investigation, Mr Drax worth about 150million could also face a parliamentary probe. Anyway, that all happened a very long time ago., Pointing proudly to the royal crown that still decorates military uniforms here, he added: Yes, Britain did bad things in Barbados, but it did a lot of good things, too. Mr Whitehead pointed to a clearing, shaded by tamarind and sandbox trees, where the slaves slept in wooden huts. NEW ROMNEY1818 - 8 Feb. 1819Family and Education b. Richard Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset, has inherited the Drax Hall plantation in Barbados after his fathers death in 2017. Its like making my great-great-great-grandchildren pay for my wrongdoings not that slavery was considered to be wrong back then. IV, pp. Home U.K. 5 Oct. 1762, 1st s. of . The mini-series ended with Drax and Cammi back on a prison ship. Until 2008 the plantations covered some 880 acres, but the Draxes have sold more than 200 acres, some for housing development. The Barbados taxpayer subsidises the price and set it last year at about Bds$150 per tonne. Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (born 29 January 1958) is a British Conservative politician, journalist and landowner, serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset since 2010. Sleeping for less than six hours a night could increase your risk of getting infections by more Can you solve this trivia riddle? Oxford and Glasgow universities gave 100,000 and 20million respectively to Caribbean counterparts after it emerged they received donations linked to slavery. 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A cousin is the 19th and present Lord Dunsany. Sir Reginald Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany thereby being in remainder to the ancient Barony of Dunsany (cr. But the shadow of slavery hangs over the gilded life of Richard Drax, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. They called us Little England, and in a lot of ways we still are.. He was privately educated at Harrow School before going to the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester where he graduated with a diploma in rural land management in 1990, receiving a further diploma in journalism in 1995. See full bio . He cant be allowed to get away with this, Mr Denny told me this week. His father died in 2017. We revealed in December Mr Drax had failed to register in Members Interests a Barbados sugar plantation he ran. The comments below have been moderated in advance. He said it was a technical infringement, now corrected. [citation needed], His first wife (divorced 1997) was Zara Legge-Bourke, younger sister of the royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, relations of the Earl of Dartmouth. They had 7 children: John Drax, Richard Draxand 5 other children. I'm a Feng Shui expert and these are the three things I will never allow in a bedroom. Drax was promoted lieutenant on 9 December 1980, before being transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers after active service on 9 December 1983, ending his first period of full-time military service. Richard Drax, Conservative MP for South Dorset, earlier this year. He retained the rank of lieutenant with seniority from 10 September 1981 to reflect the three years he had served. On top of all that, he was named and shamed by HM Revenue and Customs, last year, among 139 employers who paid staff below the minimum wage. After a big uprising in 1675, more than 100 slaves were brought before a kangaroo court, 17 of whom were instantly pronounced guilty. Sir James Drax, who hailed from a humble Warwickshire family, had just 300 when he sailed to Barbados with his brother, aged 18. Annihilation. They are using the old class thing and that is not what this election is about. 3784 (Drax Hall). Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. His brother William took their methods to Jamaica where the former plantation area is also still known as Drax Hall. As well as being extremely wealthy, Drax is also an outspoken politician. Let me declare my personal position at the outset. I rushed in and rushed out. At least six of his ancestors, including John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax and the 17th Lord Dunsany, were Members of Parliament for Dorset and Gloucestershire between the 1680s and 1880s. Im not sure I agree, but after being shown round the plantation by Richard Draxs estate manager, white Barbadian Philip Whitehead, I can understand the sentiment. The Drax Hall Plantation in Barbados was added to the Register of Members Interests on December 11 days after we told the MP we were running a story. Drax retained his seat in the 2015 general election with an increased majority and the 2017 general election. Yet are we to suppose that China, with its ruthless suppression of the Uighurs and Covid lockdown protesters, is morally superior to the unenlightened slavers of Stuart and Georgian England? Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (born 29 January 1958), known as Richard Drax, is a British Conservative politician, journalist, landowner and former British Army officer, serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset since 2010. The Draxes built and designed and structured slavery. James Tappers insightful contribution (New Generation of Good Lifers who set out to grow their own Christmas, News) includes a tip for self-sufficiency from the renowned expert William Sutherland, who advises the novice grower against planting carrots. He aired his views before marching in an impressive ceremony marking Barbadoss 56th anniversary of independence, and its first year as a republic, at the Kensington Oval cricket ground in Bridgetown. I have enjoyed a bountiful carrot harvest, having duped carrot fly by planting seeds in lavatory roll holders. Richard Anobile, a prolific creator of film books whose friendly collaboration with the anarchic comedian Groucho Marx on a project called "The . Later, the Draxes married into the Erle family that owned Charborough Park and the sugar profits helped to greatly extend the mansion and lands back in England. 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