207-11 (entry for John Samuel Wanley Drax-Erle Sawbridge of Charborough). Discover today's celebrity birthdays and explore famous people who share your birthday. His first wife (divorced 1997) was Zara Legge-Bourke, younger sister of the royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, relations of the Earl of Dartmouth. Its conical tower once held a huge bell that tolled at dawn each morning, summoning the slaves to their 12 hours of back-breaking toil. Its crazy, Mr Whitehead said of the campaign. We shouldnt be asking anyone for money. This was so new and startling that even Powell called it a colossal undertaking, while recognising that his ideas required care in the community (a phrase he did not use). The shame and despair of being physically attacked by your own child, Do not sell or share my personal information. 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. [24], He endorsed Boris Johnson in the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. The fact that he was able to summon a *police helicopter* when peaceful trespassers entered his 13,000-acre estate yday shows you how landowners would use this new law . 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His great-uncle was the celebrated writer and playwright the 18th Lord Dunsany, and his maternal grandfather was General the Lord Weeks. 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of Ireland. His brother, Thomas Grosvenor (1764-1851); of Grosvenor House, Walthamstow, Essex and Stocking Hall, Leics. The mausoleum was demolished in 1935 and replaced by a flat memorial stone. According to David Denny, a self-proclaimed Barbadian revolutionary, the Tory politician should donate hundreds of millions towards the building of schools, roads, health centres and other community projects. Will Huttons assertion that we are a country to be plundered by old and new rentiers alike (As Airbnbs shares go through the roof, we need to challenge the Big Tech monopoly, Comment) is amply demonstrated in the tourism sector, not just by Airbnb but by another parasitic behemoth, Tripadvisor, which contributes nothing to the industry but can still rake off up to 20% of an accommodation bookings value in its fee. Barbados is wholly justified in asking for the . Over 200 years, 30,000 slaves died at this and the other Drax plantations, according to Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Chair of CARICOM's Reparations Commission. Richard Drax must live on a different planet to the many of his constituents desperately struggling to make ends meet. Just what is the special Eton magic that allows it to turn out epic oafs year after year? The Drax Hall Plantation in Barbados was added to. Once that process is completed, I will of course register it in proper accordance with the rules. Richard Drax, 1352 - 1370RichardDrax13521370 It only began to end after 1833, when slavery was abolished in the British Empire. (LogOut/ He is from . For all these reasons, and more, I shall continue to fight Richard Draxs corner, uncomfortable as it may be. Britain outlawed slave trading in 1807, and ownership of slaves was banned in 1833. People who join H&R Block say it feels like being part of something bigger. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The Draxes built and designed and structured slavery. Richard Drax was gifted the plantation by his father. 207-11; Alan J. Miller, 'Three cheers for Sawbridge Drax', Dorset Life, January 2011, http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2011/01/three-cheers-for-sawbridge-drax/ Accessed 18 June 2012; http://lh.matthewbeckett.com/houses/lh_kent_olantightowers.html; Accessed 18 June 2012; London Gazette, 19819 31 January 1840, p. 197; R. J. Richardson, The lower house, or, the peers and aristocracy (London, G. Vickers, 1859), p. 47. The process has been complicated, which led to this accidental oversight., Get UK politics insight with our free daily email briefing straight to your inbox. We revealed he is the wealthiest landowner in the Commons and worth as much as 150million through a series of trusts. The Prestigious school where Princes William and Harry were educated is EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince William's potentially awkward visit to homelessness charity. Lets say that things didnt go too well from there, the insider says. Pamela Weeks (19312019) and a grandson of Admiral The Hon. Ought we to track down Frenchmen whose families fought with William the Conqueror at Hastings? One only had to watch the parade to see what he meant. This might sound controversial coming from a black person, he began, but there are many parts to the slavery story. [4] Drax was promoted lieutenant on 9 December 1980,[5] 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. 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. Sir Hilary Beckles, a prominent Barbadian historian of slavery, said Drax must acknowledge the wealth brought to the family by slavery. 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. According to David Denny, a self-proclaimed Barbadian revolutionary, the Tory politician should donate hundreds of millions towards the building of schools, roads, health centres and other community projects. CITING THIS RECORD:'Edward Drax', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643067 [accessed 2nd March 2023]. Six were burnt alive, and 11 beheaded. See full bio . [7] See also [ edit] Richard Drax registered the details as the Sunday Mirror revealed his ancestors past and how he still makes a packet from the business. Plastic surgeon reveals the one exercise that makes you AGE FASTER - saying he tells his patients to stop Traveller shares her 'secret' hack to bag an entire row of seats on a Qantas flight: 'I can't believe this Do YOU know how much a flooded home costs to repair - and is it covered on your insurance? A cousin is the 19th and present Lord Dunsany. By 1680, he had 327 black chattels and just seven whites. Drax denied the accusations, saying that he used the shortened version of his name only because of the "logistic mouthful", while Cameron's comments were a "throw away joke". Male birth control gel you rub on your SHOULDERS could be available within a decade as scientists claim What lack of sleep REALLY does to your face: Expert reveals the warning signs your skin is suffering. 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. 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". ), was also an MP: for Chester 20 Feb. 1795-1826 and Stockbridge, 1826-1830. As the estate passed down the fractured family line, thousands of slaves were made to cut and grind the Drax sugarcanes, amputating limbs in the rolling machines, being scalded by spills of boiling sugar, dying from insect-borne diseases and exhaustion. But Mr Drax admits they were active holding companies for his unlimited companies. 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. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and around the world. The newsletter is emailed out first thing every morning, at 12noon and every evening. Once that process is completed, I will of course register it in proper accordance with the rules.. When he first stood for parliament in 2010, he was asked by the Daily Mirror about his historical responsibility. "The Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other", he said. ), became owner of Drax Hall. 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.. 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.. 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. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. 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. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Powells was a constructive and humane challenge to the entrenched attitudes of psychiatric and nursing professionals. But it is Richard Drax MPs inheritance in Barbados, amassed over centuries by his ancestors ownership and appalling treatment of African people which drags him into the spotlight. The MP declined to comment this week. So, it seems, this highly charged stand-off is set to drag on. Proud to say I have achieved my APM Project Management Qualification (on the second attempt albeit), with help from Richard Leach who has been delivering a | 12 LinkedIn Tom Henderson LinkedIn: #engineering #power #projectmanagement | 12 The lineage of Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor and the Drax family was: Richard DRAX MP not (@DraxNot) / Twitter Richard DRAX MP not @DraxNot not a Land owner of a walled estate in Dorset. Last week, leading figures in the Caribbean Communitys (Caricom) Reparations Commission described the Drax Hall plantation as a killing field and a crime scene from the tens of thousands of African slaves who died there in terrible conditions between 1640 and 1836. The Draxes also owned a slave plantation in Jamaica which they sold in the 18th century. The Draxes devised a commercial sugar plantation model, worked by slaves brought from Africa, that was immensely lucrative and copied across the West Indies and theAmericas. Drax retained his seat in the 2015 general election with an increased majority and the 2017 general election. Before he first stood for election, in 2010, David Cameron apparently urged him to de-toff his image, whereupon he declared himself an ordinary man of Dorset. 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. The move means voters have been denied details about his business interests, and under S106 of the Companies Act it is an offence to knowingly or recklessly make misleading statements. The answer is that civil servants and ministers had no education to prepare them for the world of negotiating and managing commercial contracts. (LogOut/ Companies House said failure to keep records updated could result in action. Reputedly the richest landowner in the Commons, his portfolio of companies includes farms that grow poppies to make opium for the NHS and hops for craft breweries. Christianwas born circa 1341, in Yorkshire, England. The Erle family had owned Charborough House, Dorset, since the C16th and through the marriage, Drax took possession of it. One document reveals his involvement in the farm, showing that in February he registered the plantation as a business in the Barbados Companies House in his full name, Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. They are only going after him because he is the last colonial owner.. An updated register was published over Christmas, revealing an apparent scramble to declare father-of-four Mr Draxs previously unregistered business interests. At Olantigh, large picture galleries and collections of art, Venetian Towers and garden ornaments, such as a huge fountain at the entrance, were added. Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster, London, into a landowner family. He holds the lordship of the manor of Longburton and is a major landowner in east Dorset. [11] Drax retained his seat in the 2015 general election with an increased majority and the 2017 general election. On 5 February 2013, Drax voted in the House of Commons against a Second Reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 which legalised marriage for same-sex couples. Barbadian authorities value the plantation and buildings at Bds$12.5m (4.7m). He owns the Drax Hall sugar. Conservative MP for South Dorset Richard Drax, Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the Caribbean Community Reparations Commission. [22], Drax endorsed Suella Braverman during the July 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. 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. But the shadow of slavery hangs over the gilded life of Richard Drax, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Mr Whitehead pointed to a clearing, shaded by tamarind and sandbox trees, where the slaves slept in wooden huts. If Richard Drax was in front of me now, I would say: Mr Drax, the people of Barbados and Jamaica are entitled to reparatory justice., Beckles, the chair of the Caricom Reparations Commission and vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, said: Today, when I drive through the Drax Hall land and its environs, I feel a keen sense of being in a massive killing field with unmarked cemeteries. We are a people company first and a tax company second. Sugar and Black Death went hand in glove. They justify this by claiming the psychological, social and economic damage caused by slavery continues today. 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Charborough House, Dorset, Wessex, England, Olantigh, Wye, Kent, South-east England, England, http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2011/01/three-cheers-for-sawbridge-drax/, http://lh.matthewbeckett.com/houses/lh_kent_olantightowers.html, Occupations of enslaved women on Buff Bay Plantation, 1819, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2246. For if blameless distant relatives are held responsible for the slave trade or indeed any other long-ago transgression where might all this stop? [1], Drax is the eldest son of Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (19282017)[27] JP DL and The Hon. We have estimated They were beaters hired for a game-shoot he hosted. Here is a key to explain those letter codes: Prominent Liverpool merchant and slave-trader. Brother of Henry Drax (-1790) and father of Sarah Frances Drax who married Richard Grosvenor (who became Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor [q.v.]). He retained the rank of lieutenant with seniority from 10 September 1981 to reflect the three years he had served. [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. Why did this happen? Nurses leader: we dont have enough staff to keep all our patients safe. (LogOut/ But this was only by comparison with other plantation bosses. [6], Drax was reinstated on the Active List on 10 September 1984, beginning his second and final period of regular service. Within three weeks, his ministerial circular envisaged a variety of services for mentally ill people. 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. . Erle-Drax's descendant, Richard Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, was elected as Conservative MP for South Dorset in the United Kingdom general election, 2010 using the 'truncated' name Richard Drax. Richard Drax MP's 150m personal fortune was extracted on his ancestors' network of Caribbean plantations, where 30,000 slaves lost their lives. In the Chinese capital, there is even a Barbados development office, these days. The irony appears to be lost on everyone including VisitScotland, which has now partnered with it in that the only benefit that Tripadvisor claims it gives to the customer for its booking service is that their money is safer with it than with the, presumably wholly untrustworthy, primary provider that it feeds off.Allan DoyleGreenhead, Dumfries. His father died in 2017.. But after he began experimenting with new methods of sugar production using techniques and equipment gleaned from the Dutch and Portuguese who cultivated it in Brazil his fortunes were quickly transformed. No doubt some will accuse me of flippancy, but I have been heartened to learn, this week, that a good many black Barbadians share my misgivings. The value of the personalty was 10,381. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Sir Reginald Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany thereby being in remainder to the ancient Barony of Dunsany (cr. He had relied upon his accountants to file the necessary accounts and, when he was made aware of the unintended omission, instructed them to immediately rectify the position.. On 5 February 2013, Drax voted in the House of Commons against a Second Reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 that legalised marriage for same-sex couples. On December 13 we told how the MP for South Dorset had taken control of the 250-hectare sugar plantation, which had a slave workforce from 1640-1836. "[19][20], In June 2020, Drax wrote an article in the Dorset Echo suggesting that rioters linked to the Black Lives Matter protests had been responsible for desecrating The Cenotaph war memorial in London. Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster. The two firms on his Register of Members Interest declaration were registered as dormant. And so this heinous system, which by the mid-1670s funded British crown coffers with the modern equivalent of 540 billion a year went on . The rape of female slaves was also common, punishable only by a small fine. Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. In 1961, when minister of health, he spoke of setting a torch to the funeral pyre of the long-stay mental illness asylums, which he pictured as isolated, majestic and imperious. 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. It was ironic that this had made him a visible target for the reparations-seekers. But he is responsible for what he does now. Though Drax Hall is advertised as a holiday attraction, one of his descendants is the target of an increasingly vindictive campaign, orchestrated by civil rights activists backed by the ruling Barbados Labour Partys special envoy on reparations and economic enfranchisement. Erle-Drax's two daughters pre-deceased him. He recently paid Bds$59,375 (22,200) in annual land tax. It was suggested the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, has asked wealthy Conservative candidates to shorten their names to appear more in touch with normal people. In St George Parish, where the 620-acre Drax sugar plantation still employs 13 people and indirectly supports many more there are mixed opinions on the reparations claim. Selected as a Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate in July 2006, at the general election in May 2010 Drax defeated the incumbent Labour Member of Parliament for South Dorset, Jim Knight, later Baron Knight of Weymouth. .] 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. In Bridgetowns newly republican corridors of power, there is, of course, a wholly different viewpoint. Enjoying a few Independence Day drinks outside the Old Brigand pub, some locals suggested their absentee English estate owner (Richard Drax visits his estate only once a year and has never lived there) should be made to help needy families. CITING THIS RECORD:'John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2246 [accessed 2nd March 2023]. He's the MP with the Downton Abbey lifestyle. Richard Draxs assertion that no one can be held responsible today for what happened many hundreds of years ago might sound a little less disingenuous if he wasnt personally profiting to such a vast extent from the appalling actions of his own ancestors (Wealthy MP urged to pay up for his familys slave trade past, News). Others countered that, while the deeds of the Drax dynasty could never be condoned, they had already done much to benefit the community. [1] He was 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. But who rounded up these slaves and brought them to the African ports where they were purchased? The mainly 17th-century mansion with its 120ft folly tower is the model for Welland House in the Thomas Hardy novelTwo on a Tower. In Barbados, production is now subsidised by the government, and heavy rainfall reduced last years yield at Drax Hall to just 7,000 tonnes of raw cane (producing 700 tonnes of sugar). [25], Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. On his familys side he inherited Olantigh, near Wye, Kent in 1851. [30] The Reparations Commission wants Drax Hall to be returned to Barbados, to be made into a museum. Richard Drax is the Conservative MP for South Dorset, and has been an MP continuously since 6 May 2010. But he is responsible for what he does now. But then, as I have learnt while investigating this story very much of-the-moment, in a week when the British royals are mired in another race furore it is a saga rife with dubious reasoning and double standards. 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. Though the event celebrated the islands severance with Britain, it drew heavily on British tradition, from the marching music to the choreography of the tattoo. If this request is refused, the government intends to take the matter to an international arbitration court. 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. The current owner is Richard Drax, a British member of parliament, who inherited the property after the death of his father, Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (1928-2017), a former High Sheriff of Dorset. [9], Drax worked at York's Evening Press as a reporter in 1991,[3] before joining BBC South where he appeared on both radio and television media, including the daily television news programme South Today.[10]. Sleeping for less than six hours a night could increase your risk of getting infections by more Can you solve this trivia riddle? Tweet. Occupations of enslaved women on Buff Bay Plantation, 1819, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643067. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. 3784 (Drax Hall). They called us Little England, and in a lot of ways we still are.. 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). Get weekly highlights from Mirror editor Alison Phillips direct to your email. EXCLUSIVE: Richard Drax replaced a decade of accounts for four farming firms revealing hundreds of thousands of pounds of undisclosed business. He is said to have spent money prodigiously [Matthew Beckett] on both Olantigh and Charborough Park, including on the building of the celebrated brick wall surrounding the estate which is said to use about 2 million bricks. NEW ROMNEY1818 - 8 Feb. 1819Family and Education b. About 20m a huge sum was then paid out to compensate slave owners. A plantation like this could be used to help teach us about our history its a must that we do this if we are not to put it out of our minds. [. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. There has been speculation about whether the Drax family still owned the Barbados estate as absentee landlords, especially after Richards father Henry Drax died in 2017. In 2009, Drax faced criticism from political rivals for 'hiding his aristocratic roots' by not using his full quadruple-barrelled name. 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. 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. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. By Richard Sandomir. As author Matthew Parker states in his definitive book The Sugar Barons, by the end of the 17th century virtually every British merchant and investor was implicated in the slave-driven sugar economy. [14], Drax campaigned for Brexit during the 2016 referendum. 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 To burden a son with his fathers sins is egregious enough. Asked about its absence on the Parliamentary Register of Members Interests, Drax said on Friday that he is still acting as executor of his fathers will and does not yet legally own the Barbados holdings as these are still going through the probate process and have not yet transferred to my name. King Charles IIs brother, James, was president of the Royal African Company, the biggest supplier of slaves, and shares were held by such lauded figures as the philosopher John Locke and diarist Samuel Pepys. It has a Reparations Commission, whose chair is Sir Hilary Beckles. Campaigners demanded Mr Drax, 62, pay reparations for harm caused by his familys slave trade. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 29 January. The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. ET. His brother William took their methods to Jamaica where the former plantation area is also still known as Drax Hall. Together . How did Enoch Powell, a man with no shame, come to haunt our times? 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