The MPs spokesman said: Richard was made aware on February 5 of omissions in the Companies House filings in relation to unlimited Abbots Court Farm and Anderson Manor Farm. This is a part of the nations history, from which we must all learn.. Clive Stafford Smith organised fictional legal proceedings against Richard Drax using 40 pupils aged between 12 and 18, some of whom are from a school within his South Dorset constituency. The plantation was added to the register only after we told the MP we were running a story. Campaigners demanded Mr Drax, 62, pay reparations for harm caused by his familys slave trade. Mr Drax who has described his ancestors slavery role as deeply, deeply regrettable said: I have updated my entries to include the property in Barbados, although that disclosure is not necessary until it has been legally transferred to me. 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. 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. [. he is one of famous Politician with the age 63 years old group. 207-11 (entry for John Samuel Wanley Drax-Erle Sawbridge of Charborough). The mausoleum was demolished in 1935 and replaced by a flat memorial stone. I rushed in and rushed out. 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? To burden a son with his fathers sins is egregious enough. [1] 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. If this request is refused, the government intends to take the matter to an international arbitration court. 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. 3784 (Drax Hall). 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. Men such as Barbados army veteran Pedro Hall, 72, a cousin of the great West Indian fast-bowler Wes Hall. "Black life mattered only to make millionaires of English enslavers. [7] See also [ edit] [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. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. As it has changed little since the mid-1600s, one could imagine the appalling misery of the men, women and children who once worked here. Early life [ edit] Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster, London, into a landowner family. 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. Leading Barbados human rights barrister Andrew Pilgrim KC (a title still used here, though Charles is no longer king) depicts an island where black people are too often treated as second-class citizens, though they overwhelmingly form the majority of the 287,000 population. Mr Drax has no plans to return any time soon.. [6], Drax was reinstated on the Active List on 10 September 1984, beginning his second and final period of regular service. 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. The value of the personalty was 10,381. Drax since married his third wife, Norwegian-born Elsebet Bdtker, and has four children in total. Since his wealth is based on murder, kidnap and theft, the least he can do . 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.. 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. They have a responsibility now to make some effort to help repair the damage. 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. 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Until 2008 the plantations covered some 880 acres, but the Draxes have sold more than 200 acres, some for housing development. Should individual Danes be forced to compensate the United Kingdom for the rape and pillage of Viking invasions? He was privately educated at Harrow School . A cousin is the 19th and present Lord Dunsany. Official sources in Bridgetown, Barbados, confirmed the MP now farms Drax Hall. So, how much is Richard Drax worth at the age of 64 years old? 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. 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. After 10 years as a backbencher he has become increasingly prominent among Tory rightwing Brexiters driving the governments hardline position on Europe. Brother of Henry Drax (-1790) and father of Sarah Frances Drax who married Richard Grosvenor (who became Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor [q.v.]). 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:'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]. In 2009, Drax faced criticism from political rivals for 'hiding his aristocratic roots' by not using his full quadruple-barrelled name. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. [25], Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. EXCLUSIVE: Richard Drax replaced a decade of accounts for four farming firms revealing hundreds of thousands of pounds of undisclosed business. We will update Richard Drax's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. Richard Drax was gifted the plantation by his father. "The Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other", he said. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Drax married his second wife; Eliza, daughter of Commander James Dugdale RN (related to David Cameron). Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster. [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. Richard Drax, Conservative MP for South Dorset, earlier this year. However, Cohen ignores a major Powell speech that has had a long-lasting, permanent and wholly benevolent impact. Companies House said failure to keep records updated could result in action. 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. Richard Drax MP's 150m personal fortune was extracted on his ancestors' network of Caribbean plantations, where 30,000 slaves lost their lives. They are using the old class thing and that is not what this election is about, its not what I stand for, and I ignore itI think it shows how desperate they are if all they can do is pick at bits of my family history.'. The "new" Drax killed Lunatik and one of the Blood Brothers. 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". The tragedy is that this situation wont change until Eton and other schools start preparing their students for a very different modern world.Tim LewindonFelixstowe, Suffolk, In the face of concern from across the NHS regarding the shortage of nurses and the increased demand resulting from Covid-19, the response of the Department of Health and Social Care is lamentable (Nurses leader: we dont have enough staff to keep all our patients safe, News). The barrister told me he would love to prosecute a legal case against him, even though he strongly doubts it would be seen to have validity in the courts. He also added other assets we highlighted as missing, including land in North Yorkshire and property in Dorset and in Surrey. But the shadow of slavery hangs over the gilded life of Richard Drax, Wealthy MP urged to pay up for his familys slave trade past. [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. It only began to end after 1833, when slavery was abolished in the British Empire. Official documentation shows the MP now controls Drax Hall Plantation. The mainly 17th-century mansion with its 120ft folly tower is the model for Welland House in the Thomas Hardy novelTwo on a Tower. 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. 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. During the 2010 United Kingdom general election campaign period, in which he was running for MP for South Dorset, the Daily Mirror reported that Drax's family had earned their fortune through slavery. The plantation relied on slaves for almost 200 years and the MP said his ancestors involvement was regrettable. [12][non-primary source needed], In the House of Commons he has sat on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and currently serves on the European Scrutiny Committee. Mr Drax was also criticised for failing to pay beaters at shooting parties on his estate the minimum wage. Richard Drax, 64, has reportedly been threatened with legal action in the international courts by politicians on the Caribbean island if he refuses to comply with their demands. Pamela Weeks (19312019) and a grandson of Admiral The Hon. Richard Drax cannot be responsible for what his ancestors did 400 years ago. [22], Drax endorsed Suella Braverman during the July 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster. As a reminder of the links between Dorset and Barbados a road that bisects the Charborough estate is called Sugar Hill. 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. The Drax family also owned slave plantations in Jamaica, which they sold in the mid-1800s. 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. 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Britain outlawed slave trading in 1807, and ownership of slaves was banned in 1833. At Olantigh, large picture galleries and collections of art, Venetian Towers and garden ornaments, such as a huge fountain at the entrance, were added. It gave us our parliament and law courts. 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). His wife is Elsebet Drax (m. 1998), Zara Drax (m. 19851997). Let me declare my personal position at the outset. Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the Caribbean Community Reparations Commission and vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, said: People of Barbados and Jamaica are entitled to reparatory justice. 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. Black life mattered only to make millionaires of English enslavers and the Drax family did it longer than any other elite family.. See for the whole family, Burke, vol. See full bio . He was promoted captain on 10 March 1986. Nurses leader: we dont have enough staff to keep all our patients safe. A Tory MP whose family made millions through slavery is facing calls for an investigation into his company records. Richard Drax - or to give him his full name, Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax - is the MP for South Dorset, owner of the Charborough Estate, and by my reckoning, the largest individual landowner in Dorset. There is precedence for compensating descendants of slaves. Richard Drax's 17th-century ancestors James and William sailed to Barbados in the late 1620s, . 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. Its crazy, Mr Whitehead said of the campaign. Erle-Drax also owned an estate at Holnest, Dorset where he built an elaborate mausoleum besides the parish church. In the view of Philip Whitehead, 65, who has managed the plantation for 39 years, however, later generations of the Draxs deserve credit for sticking with sugar, through good times and bad. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old? When, periodically, the Africans rebelled, the reprisals were shockingly swift and savage. His father died in 2017.. The Mirror's newsletter brings you the latest news, exciting showbiz and TV stories, sport updates and essential political information. 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. The penalty can be prison. [18], During the 2019 UK General Election Drax apologised after his Land Rover, with a campaign poster on the vehicle, was photographed parking across two disabled parking spaces outside his campaign headquarters. View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. The accounts reveal in 2014 it had assets of more than 3.1m, and 3.4m in 2019. In response, Drax replied in the Dorset Echo that: 'I cant be held responsible for something that happened 300 or 400 years ago. It sounds a comparatively modest sum, but by then their 200 years of profits had been invested in. Richard Drax registered the details as the Sunday Mirror revealed his ancestors' past - and how he still makes a packet from the business. After being flogged relentlessly for days, his ears were cut off and roasted, and he was forced to eat them. and on. James Drax first landed in Barbados in 1627. Three: we would like to talk to you about how [you should repay these debts]. This is home to Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset, who lives in the palatial Grade I-listed Charborough House, hidden from public view within the 700-acre private grounds. You drive in and it looks like a plantation might look back in the 17th century. 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. 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. ), was also an MP: for Chester 20 Feb. 1795-1826 and Stockbridge, 1826-1830. 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). The Drax fortune includes vast expanses of land and property in England but, as our investigation reveals, the familys role as plantation owners inBarbadosappears to remain key to the MPs wealth. Truss on 149, Sunak on 132. Genealogy for Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor (Grosvenor), MP (1762 - 1819) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of Ireland. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous Politician. Six were burnt alive, and 11 beheaded. Barbadian authorities value the plantation and buildings at Bds$12.5m (4.7m). Tax Justice Network chief Alex Cobham said of Mr Draxs new records: Its difficult to see how this error could have been made in a way that was neither knowing nor reckless.. The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. [1], Drax is the eldest son of Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (19282017)[27] JP DL and The Hon. In the Chinese capital, there is even a Barbados development office, these days. He said it was a technical infringement, now corrected. Once we have made him pay, we are coming after the Royal Family.. Inside Frogmore Cottage: Plush home Harry and Meghan have been 'evicted' from by King Charles boasts a roomy Charles evicting Harry and Meghan is the act of a King putting his country first: REBECCA ENGLISH reveals A royal princess at Eton? Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. Erle-Drax's two daughters pre-deceased him. The Erle family had owned Charborough House, Dorset, since the C16th and through the marriage, Drax took possession of it. 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