Beckles told us that historically the Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other family. Burke, vol. Sir Reginald Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany thereby being in remainder to the ancient Barony of Dunsany (cr. That this nation exploited more slaves than any other is an often-rehearsed fact. A visiting priest described watching the punishment meted out to a slave who had stolen a pig to feed his starving family. 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. The roads are filled with Beijing-built buses. IT and other providers signed up to contracts they knew were drawn up by employees who had no experience or ability to think through the detail. 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. Change). 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. But the shadow of slavery hangs over the gilded life of Richard Drax, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The plantation was added to the register only after we told the MP we were running a story. Mr Drax was also criticised for failing to pay beaters at shooting parties on his estate the minimum wage. A captain in the East Kent Militia; raised a troop of the Dorsetshire Yeomanry in 1830 to deal with the Swing Riots; patron of five church livings; appointed sheriff of Dorset, January 1840; a deputy-lieutenant of Dorset in the late 1850s. he is one of famous Politician with the age 63 years old group. You drive in and it looks like a plantation might look back in the 17th century. Paul Lashmar and Jonathan Smith write, Hes the MP with the Downton Abbey lifestyle. Tending his garden, not far from the plantation, Arthur Thomas, a retired teacher well-versed in the history of slavery, bravely opened an unspoken aspect of the debate. His grandson Henry concurred. 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. The Barbados taxpayer subsidises the price and set it last year at about Bds$150 per tonne. ), was also an MP: for Chester 20 Feb. 1795-1826 and Stockbridge, 1826-1830. "He could donate his inheritance to the island on which it stands and still have plenty of property left.. Details: Leeds Mercury, 30 June 1887. It raises many ethical and philosophical questions. Erle-Drax also owned an estate at Holnest, Dorset where he built an elaborate mausoleum besides the parish church. His brother, Thomas Grosvenor (1764-1851); of Grosvenor House, Walthamstow, Essex and Stocking Hall, Leics. Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. On Friday, the MP said he 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. 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of Ireland. Yet his passport still bears his quadruple-barrelled name: Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. Richard Drax's 17th-century ancestors James and William sailed to Barbados in the late 1620s, . half brother. The Drax family received 4,293 pounds, 12 shillings and 6 pence more than 500,000 today. By 1680, he had 327 black chattels and just seven whites. Sir Hilary Beckles, chairman of the 20-state Caribbean Communitys (Caricom) Reparations Commission and vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, estimates that as many 30,000 slaves died on the Drax plantations in Barbados andJamaicaover 200 years. 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[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]. His brother William took their methods to Jamaica where the former plantation area is also still known as Drax Hall. Drax kills Thanos. But to hold a wholly innocent man to account for the evils of his distant ancestors seems utterly preposterous. 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. When contacting this Member, they should be addressed as Richard Drax. Richard Drax, 1352 - 1370RichardDrax13521370 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. Warning chocolate lovers ultra-processed foods might make you depressed, study claims, Can YOU guess the book? Richard Drax cannot be responsible for what his ancestors did 400 years ago. After a big uprising in 1675, more than 100 slaves were brought before a kangaroo court, 17 of whom were instantly pronounced guilty. See for the whole family, Burke, vol. 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 - 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. After germination, transplant carefully, keeping the cardboard capsule intact, to a deep ridge or large straight-sided pot. We have estimated 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.'. How fitting! 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. 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. When, periodically, the Africans rebelled, the reprisals were shockingly swift and savage. 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. 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. The Estate has been in existence since 1086 and is mentioned in the Domesday Book and . Mr Whitehead pointed to a clearing, shaded by tamarind and sandbox trees, where the slaves slept in wooden huts. But Mr Drax admits they were active holding companies for his unlimited companies. However, Mr Pilgrim conceded that reparations claims could equally be made against many white Barbadians who have built successful businesses on the profits of slavery. About 20m a huge sum was then paid out to compensate slave owners. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I think its more of a moral argument, he said, adding that Mr Drax would be well-advised to save his reputation by accepting responsibility, apologising, and volunteering a substantial sum towards opening a slavery awareness museum, or some similar project. [25], Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. The department needs to respond to the very real concerns of beleaguered NHS professionals.Neil MacehiterGreat Shelford, Cambridge. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Richard Rider (Nova). He replied: I cant be held responsible for something that happened 300 or 400 years ago. Drax said it was an attempt to smear him. Never miss a moment by signing up to our newsletter here. Powells was a constructive and humane challenge to the entrenched attitudes of psychiatric and nursing professionals. Annihilation. Drax since married his third wife, Norwegian-born Elsebet Bdtker, and has four children in total. Mr Thomas believes Britain and other European countries that profited from slavery, such as Spain, France, Portugal and Holland (who for many years dominated the trade), should compensate the Caribbean islands they plundered, but at a governmental level. ), became owner of Drax Hall. I rushed in and rushed out. 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. Pictured:Richard Drax. 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. The MP for South Dorset, Richard Drax, has inherited the 250-hectare Drax Hall plantation in Barbados from his father, inquiries by the Observer have established. He holds the lordship of the manor of Longburton[citation needed] and is the largest individual landowner in Dorset, owning approximately 13,870 acres (5,610ha), equivalent to 2% of the land in Dorset. He was privately educated at Harrow School . IV, p. 211. Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023. Later, the Draxes married into the Erle family that owned Charborough Park and the sugar profits helped to greatly extend the . Come on, Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, pay up, pay up and redeem your name!Duncan TomsMachynlleth, Powys. [7] He was promoted captain on 10 March 1986. Richard Drax MP's 150m personal fortune was extracted on his ancestors' network of Caribbean plantations, where 30,000 slaves lost their lives. NEW ROMNEY1818 - 8 Feb. 1819Family and Education b. The Dutch also gave him the idea to replace the indentured English and Irish servants who worked his land with imported Africans, whom he deemed able to do the work of three white men. The TV presenter and historian David Olusoga says: The Drax family are one of the few who were pioneers in the early stages of the British slave economy back in the 17th century and, generations later, still owned plantations and enslaved people at the end of British slavery in the 1830s. 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. He's the MP with the Downton Abbey lifestyle. Catherine Bennett was right to question the special Eton magic (Just what is the special Eton magic that allows it to turn out epic oafs year after year?, Comment). 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. Oscar Cainer tells all. Richard Drax is the Conservative MP for South Dorset, and has been an MP continuously since 6 May 2010. Mr Drax, a rich, high-profile British MP, had been picked on precisely because was an easy target. Beckles says Richard Drax should: One: apologise to African people and the people of the Caribbean. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873. Let me declare my personal position at the outset. 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. Clearly there are some glaring contradictions to all this. To provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. This might sound controversial coming from a black person, he began, but there are many parts to the slavery story. Drax married his second wife; Eliza, daughter of Commander James Dugdale RN (related to David Cameron) in 1998. 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. [. [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. He'd neglected to mention it on the House of Commons Register of Members' Interests until 29 December 2020, despite the estate being in his family for more than 400 years. He also admitted that he had never given Mr Drax a second thought until he was contacted by Dorset-based members of Stand Up to Racism. 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. I couldnt stand by and watch these white people carry our struggle, he said. He served across the world, including Germany, Cyprus, Kenya, Brunei, Hong Kong, the United States, London and three operational tours in Northern Ireland. The plantation relied on slaves for almost 200 years and the MP said his ancestors involvement was regrettable. 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 latest examples of this can be seen in the confusing and expensive mess of managing Covid-19. 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? Drax worked at York's Evening Press as a reporter in 1991, before joining BBC South where he appeared on both radio and television media, including the daily television news programme South Today. The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. 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. Its always intrigued me that Drax Plantation is still functioning. I'm a Feng Shui expert and these are the three things I will never allow in a bedroom. [30] The Reparations Commission wants Drax Hall to be returned to Barbados, to be made into a museum. See full bio . Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old? He did this after we asked Companies House about his finances. T71/898 Barbados claim no. But the shadow of slavery hangs over the gilded life of Richard Drax, adding that The hardline Tory Brexiters family made a fortune from their Caribbean plantations where thousands died. Now, Drax faces urgent calls for reparations. Just what is the special Eton magic that allows it to turn out epic oafs year after year? 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. 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. 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. Drax retained his seat in the 2015 general election with an increased majority and the 2017 general election. 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]. Published: 00:53 GMT, 3 December 2022 | Updated: 02:01 GMT, 3 December 2022. Barbados is not a Third World country, he said. So, it seems, this highly charged stand-off is set to drag on. Drax also owns some 125 Dorset properties personally or through family trusts and could be worth as much as 150m. View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. 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. Its perpetrators lived like princes. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. 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. If he espouses the same cause that so many Tories champion, that it does people good to learn to stand on their own two feet, he would surely welcome the introduction of wealth and land taxes.Brian WoollandSalisbury, Wiltshire, Richard Drax cannot be responsible for what his ancestors did 400 years ago. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and . 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. [26] He also owns the 2,200-acre (890ha) Ellerton Abbey farming estate in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, and the nearby 520-acre (210ha) Copperthwaite Allotment grouse moor. 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. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Barbadian authorities value the plantation and buildings at Bds$12.5m (4.7m). James Drax first landed in Barbados in 1627. If this request is refused, the government intends to take the matter to an international arbitration court. Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023. It was ironic that this had made him a visible target for the reparations-seekers. 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. 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. They had 7 children: John Drax, Richard Draxand 5 other children. The Draxes built and designed and structured slavery. Genealogy profile for Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor, MP. 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 . Richard Drax's net worth 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 are a people company first and a tax company second. Produce from Draxs firms all with offices on his Charborough estate in Dorset includes barley for brewers and opium poppies for NHS morphine. .] We might ask, for example, why the Barbadian authorities rage against one former colonial master while cosying ever closer to a very current one, in the form of China. Richard Draxs family profited on the backs of black slaves for many generations. 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. To restate its commitment to recruit 50,000 nurses by the end of the current parliament not only fails to respond to the immediate shortages but also takes no account of the fact that the target was set before the onset of the pandemic. 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. Drax since married Norwegian-born Elsebet Bdtker and has four children in total. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres. The Erle family had owned Charborough House, Dorset, since the C16th and through the marriage, Drax took possession of it. They are demanding that South Dorset MP Richard Drax, who now owns the estate, must pay a vast sum to compensate for the historic sins of his forebears. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. 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. Two: show remorse and participate in reparatory justice. Sir James Drax, who hailed from a humble Warwickshire family, had just 300 when he sailed to Barbados with his brother, aged 18. So, no, Mr Drax is not a man for whom I would readily die in a ditch. Richard Drax, better known by her family name Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, is a popular British Politician. People whose experiences and knowledge of the islands history lend their opinions far more validity than mine. He said it was a technical infringement, now corrected. Born on 29 January 1958 in United Kingdom, Richard Drax started his career as Politician . His father died in 2017. 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. 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. A cousin is the 19th and present Lord Dunsany. 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. Drax rarely comments on his ancestors history of slave owning. Oxford and Glasgow universities gave 100,000 and 20million respectively to Caribbean counterparts after it emerged they received donations linked to slavery. 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. , money, salary, income, and assets. 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. The newsletter is emailed out first thing every morning, at 12noon and every evening. Brother of Henry Drax (-1790) and father of Sarah Frances Drax who married Richard Grosvenor (who became Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor [q.v.]). "[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. Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. By contemporary accounts, James Drax and his early successors were relatively enlightened owners who believed well-treated slaves worked more efficiently. 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. There is precedence for compensating descendants of slaves. 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. They are only going after him because he is the last colonial owner.. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. David Comissiong, Barbadoss ambassador to Caricom, says of the Drax family: You cant simply walk away from the scene of the crime. Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster. 207-11 (entry for John Samuel Wanley Drax-Erle Sawbridge of Charborough). The Drax family did it longer than any elite family.. [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. 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. The two firms on his Register of Members Interest declaration were registered as dormant. Since his wealth is based on murder, kidnap and theft, the least he can do . Why did this happen? Richard was delighted to re-elected the MP for South Dorset in December 2019. 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.. It is an ironic description, not only because would-be visitors driving into the remote sugar plantation over which the house looms are greeted by a keep out sign, daubed on an oil drum. More at IMDbPro Contact Info: View agent, publicist, legal on IMDbPro. 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. He is a member of famous Politician with the age 64 years old group. A cousin is the 19th and present Lord Dunsany. Mr Drax, 63, is believed to be the wealthiest landowner in the House of Commons, with 5,600 hectares of farmland and woodlands, and is worth about 150million. Richard Drax (Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax) was born on 29 January, 1958 in Westminster, London, United Kingdom, is a British politician. He owns the Drax Hall sugar. 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). Pamela Weeks (19312019) and a grandson of Admiral The Hon. 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. The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. 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). does a narcissist ever stop the silent treatment, is bulbine frutescens poisonous to dogs, And nursing professionals people of the 17th Lord Dunsany, at 12noon and every evening,. 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