The Draxes also owned a slave plantation in Jamaica which they sold in the 18th century. The lineage of Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor and the Drax family was: But Mr Drax admits they were active holding companies for his unlimited companies. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and around the world. We revealed he is the wealthiest landowner in the Commons and worth as much as 150million through a series of trusts. 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. Drax married his second wife; Eliza, daughter of Commander James Dugdale RN (related to David Cameron) in 1998. Should individual Danes be forced to compensate the United Kingdom for the rape and pillage of Viking invasions? 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. They are using the old class thing and that is not what this election is about. Ought we to track down Frenchmen whose families fought with William the Conqueror at Hastings? 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Sir Reginald Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany thereby being in remainder to the ancient Barony of Dunsany (cr. Drax is only the first target, he told me, evidently fired up for this great new crusade. Drax retained his seat in the 2015 general election with an increased majority and the 2017 general election. The strongest-looking men could fetch 20 3,500 in todays money; lusting plantation officers would also buy young girls for their harems. A visiting priest described watching the punishment meted out to a slave who had stolen a pig to feed his starving family. 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). About Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor, MP. Richard Drax has replaced a decade of accounts for four farming firms revealing hundreds of thousands of pounds of undisclosed business. 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. 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.'. [23] After Braverman was eliminated, he supported Liz Truss. In response, Drax replied in the Dorset Echo that: 'I cant be held responsible for something that happened 300 or 400 years ago. The South Dorset MP, 63, started replacing entries after our enquiry in January. Here is a key to explain those letter codes: Prominent Liverpool merchant and slave-trader. 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of Ireland. Its like making my great-great-great-grandchildren pay for my wrongdoings not that slavery was considered to be wrong back then. T71/898 Barbados claim no. He relinquished his British Army commission on 9 September 1987, thereby retiring after nine years' service as a Coldstreamer. The Barbadian revolutionary David Denny thinks otherwise. My parents died in short succession and administration of both estates is ongoing. Drax married his second wife; Eliza, daughter of Commander James Dugdale RN (related to David Cameron). The Barbados plantation was worked by up to 327 slaves at a time, with the death rate for both adults and children high. Drax since married Norwegian-born Elsebet Bdtker and has four children in total. Official documentation shows the MP now controls Drax Hall Plantation. However, Cohen ignores a major Powell speech that has had a long-lasting, permanent and wholly benevolent impact. I rushed in and rushed out. As a reminder of the links between Dorset and Barbados a road that bisects the Charborough estate is called Sugar Hill. Drax's response questioned his responsibility for "something that happened 300 or 400 years ago", stating "it's not what I stand for", and cited the desperation of his opponents- "all they can do is pick at bits of my family history". 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. The latest figures show an average family is paying 400 more a month for. Home U.K. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and around the world. Change). On the marriage, Sawbridge assumed the name of Erle-Drax. Powells was a constructive and humane challenge to the entrenched attitudes of psychiatric and nursing professionals. 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. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. Harvested sugar cane is no longer processed at the plantations but taken to a central processing plant and then refined for export. However, official sources in Barbados confirm that Richards father owned the plantation and had passed it on to his oldest son, Richard. Richard Drax was gifted the plantation by his father. This might sound controversial coming from a black person, he began, but there are many parts to the slavery story. This is a part of the nations history, from which we must all learn.. 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). 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. 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. 3784 (Drax Hall). You drive in and it looks like a plantation might look back in the 17th century. For all these reasons, and more, I shall continue to fight Richard Draxs corner, uncomfortable as it may be. It sounds a comparatively modest sum, but by then their 200 years of profits had been invested in. Truss on 149, Sunak on 132. The two firms on his Register of Members Interest declaration were registered as dormant. Within three weeks, his ministerial circular envisaged a variety of services for mentally ill people. Left his estate, including the plant and stock of the Hall Drax estate, Barbados, and his properties, furniture and other contents to his nephew, Wanley Ellis Sawbridge. The plantation was added to the register only after we told the MP we were running a story. . Many Barbadians regard the original owner of this eponymous pile, Sir James Drax, as the devil incarnate. Never miss a moment by signing up to our newsletter here. Oxford and Glasgow universities gave 100,000 and 20million respectively to Caribbean counterparts after it emerged they received donations linked to slavery. 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.. IV, p. 211. 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. 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. 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. His son, also called Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor (q.v. He owns the Drax Hall sugar. Moreover, how far back do the woke brigade expect the reckoning to go? [21], In May 2022, Drax criticised the decision by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak to introduce a windfall tax on oil and gas firms to fund economic support for the public during the cost of living crisis, accusing him of "throwing red meat to socialists". To burden a son with his fathers sins is egregious enough. His grandson Henry concurred. That our great reformers led the world in ending it is often overlooked. Richard Drax is known for PMQs (2010), The Sarah-Jane Mee Show (2019) and South at Six (1961). NEW ROMNEY1818 - 8 Feb. 1819Family and Education b. 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. In the Chinese capital, there is even a Barbados development office, these days. The Drax wealth may be hidden by a great wall of secrecy and unanswered questions away from prying eyes. He was privately educated at Harrow School . He is a privileged person to have this in his gift.Angela SingerCambridge, It is perhaps to be expected, but nevertheless disappointing, that after generations of his family enjoying so much more than their fair share of the fruits of nature and the labour of others, including slaves, Richard Drax seems unable to rise above himself and take some responsibility, as a few more honourable others have done, for the cost to his fellow humans, past and present, of his inherited property, accumulated wealth and self-serving politics. The Drax family received 4,293 pounds, 12 shillings and 6 pence more than 500,000 today. Daily Mirror, 5 May 2010; Dorset Echo, 6 May 2010. He holds the lordship of the manor of Longburton and is a major landowner in east Dorset. Until 2008 the plantations covered some 880 acres, but the Draxes have sold more than 200 acres, some for housing development. 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. Britain outlawed slave trading in 1807, and ownership of slaves was banned in 1833. 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. 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Though institutions such as Glasgow University, All Souls College, Oxford, and brewers Greene King have opted to pay compensation for their links to slavery, surely the same onus shouldnt pass down the genealogical tree of every family involved? We are a people company first and a tax company second. [22], Drax endorsed Suella Braverman during the July 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. The Estate has been in existence since 1086 and is mentioned in the Domesday Book and . 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. . CITING THIS RECORD:'Edward Drax', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643067 [accessed 2nd March 2023]. It sounds a comparatively modest sum, but by then their 200 years of profits had been invested in English properties and businesses. 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. Richard Drax is facing calls for an investigation, Mr Drax worth about 150million could also face a parliamentary probe. Its perpetrators lived like princes. As one wag quipped, with the sugar industry and West Indies Test cricket team in decline, shes the islands most famous export. Richard Draxs 17th-century ancestors James and William sailed toBarbadosin the late 1620s, where they cleared lush land in the centre of the island and experimented with growing and processing sugar. Others countered that, while the deeds of the Drax dynasty could never be condoned, they had already done much to benefit the community. Three: we would like to talk to you about how [you should repay these debts]. [25], Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. He did this after we asked Companies House about his finances. A Tory MP has finally admitted to Parliament he owns a former slave plantation where his family made millions. Richardpassed away in 1370, at age 33 at death place. 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. 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 . Clearly there are some glaring contradictions to all this. 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. [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]. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 29 January. [13], In 2009, Drax faced criticism from political rivals for 'hiding his aristocratic roots' by not using his full quadruple-barrelled name. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 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. Black life mattered only to make millionaires of English enslavers and the Drax family did it longer than any other elite family.. The "new" Drax killed Lunatik and one of the Blood Brothers. 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. [15] In April 2019, in a speech in the House of Commons, Drax said that he "made the wrong call" by supporting the government's Brexit deal and called for the resignation of Theresa May if she failed to take the UK out of the EU by 12 April. Mr Drax was also criticised for failing to pay beaters at shooting parties on his estate the minimum wage. The department needs to respond to the very real concerns of beleaguered NHS professionals.Neil MacehiterGreat Shelford, Cambridge. Sir Reginald Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany thereby being in remainder to the ancient Barony of Dunsany (cr. Sir Hilary Beckles, a prominent Barbadian historian of slavery, said Drax must acknowledge the wealth brought to the family by slavery. In June hesaid of the Black Lives Matter protests: The desecration of the Cenotaph by rioters two weeks ago, on the actual D-Day anniversary, was beyond ironic. He is vociferous on immigration, too. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. [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. He served across the world, including Germany, Cyprus, Kenya, Brunei, Hong Kong, the United States, London and three operational tours in Northern Ireland. Occupations of enslaved women on Buff Bay Plantation, 1819, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643067. It only began to end after 1833, when slavery was abolished in the British Empire. Mr Drax, a rich, high-profile British MP, had been picked on precisely because was an easy target. A year after becoming a republic, Barbados pursues damages for sins of its colonial past Ministers call on Richard Drax, the UK owner of the largest former slave estate on the island, to atone. In Bridgetowns newly republican corridors of power, there is, of course, a wholly different viewpoint. Erle-Drax's two daughters pre-deceased him. However, a well-placed source tells me he might have been amenable to such a solution, had he not been ambushed at a meeting in early October with the Barbadian prime minister Mia Mottley. James Drax first landed in Barbados in 1627. But he is responsible for what he does now. [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. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Drax kills Thanos. Now he could be on the hook for reparations", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Drax&oldid=1139014260, This page was last edited on 12 February 2023, at 22:40. 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. Black African people did that, but Ive never heard anyone say they should be held responsible. Its crazy, Mr Whitehead said of the campaign. EXCLUSIVE: Revealed: Prison reform boss who drunkenly beat her husband every day after downing white wine Are you allowing your bank to rip you off? Mr Drax worth about 150million could also face a parliamentary probe. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Produce from Draxs firms all with offices on his Charborough estate in Dorset includes barley for brewers and opium poppies for NHS morphine. March 1, 2023, 6:11 p.m. This article was amended on 13 December 2020 because an earlier version referred to the Caribbean Reparations Commission (Caricom) To clarify: Caricom is the Caribbean Community, an organisation of fifteen states and dependencies throughout the Caribbean. Barbados is wholly justified in asking for the . [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. 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[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. IV, pp. 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. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 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. Richard Drax, Conservative MP for South Dorset, earlier this year. 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.. 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. 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. 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. 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. Richard Drax cannot be responsible for what his ancestors did 400 years ago. I'm a Feng Shui expert and these are the three things I will never allow in a bedroom. 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. He is a member of famous Politician with the age 64 years old group. Matthew Parkers masterful book includes harrowing first-hand accounts of the trials they suffered after being crammed into galleys (where up to a quarter died of disease and suffocation) and shipped across the Atlantic. 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