More at IMDbPro Contact Info: View agent, publicist, legal on IMDbPro. That is for Third World countries. 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. Yet while other plantations have closed, Mr Drax wished to perpetuate his familys heritage, the manager says. They had 7 children: John Drax, Richard Draxand 5 other children. 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. Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster. 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. Discover Richard Drax's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. 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. 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). 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. 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. 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? The answer is that civil servants and ministers had no education to prepare them for the world of negotiating and managing commercial contracts. Occupations of enslaved women on Buff Bay Plantation, 1819, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643067. His brother William took their methods to Jamaica where the former plantation area is also still known as Drax Hall. EXCLUSIVE Richard Drax is the wealthiest landowner in the House of Commons and worth as much as 150 million. CITING THIS RECORD:'Edward Drax', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146643067 [accessed 2nd March 2023]. [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. But he is responsible for what he does now. Richard Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset, has inherited the Drax Hall plantation in Barbados after his fathers death in 2017. 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. [7] He was promoted captain on 10 March 1986. Its not what I stand for and I ignore it., On Friday, Drax said: I am keenly aware of the slave trade in the West Indies, and the role my very distant ancestor played in it is deeply, deeply regrettable, but no one can be held responsible today for what happened many hundreds of years ago. They were beaters hired for a game-shoot he hosted. [7] See also [ edit] According to Parliament's register of interests, Drax was one of 72 Conservative MPs who voted against the amendment who personally derived an income from renting out property. Contact Richard Drax This section contains web, social and other contact information for Richard Drax. [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 Estate has been in existence since 1086 and is mentioned in the Domesday Book and . The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. The penalty can be prison. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. In the Chinese capital, there is even a Barbados development office, these days. His first home was a cave and his early farming ventures failed. They justify this by claiming the psychological, social and economic damage caused by slavery continues today. Two: show remorse and participate in reparatory justice. Once that process is completed, I will of course register it in proper accordance with the rules. Something went wrong, please try again later. I rushed in and rushed out. 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. 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. 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. Many Barbadians regard the original owner of this eponymous pile, Sir James Drax, as the devil incarnate. 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. It provided a sound education for the superstar singer Rihanna. Its like making my great-great-great-grandchildren pay for my wrongdoings not that slavery was considered to be wrong back then. Drax responded to the incident by saying: "I popped in to get some literature and very thoughtlessly parked on those lines which I immediately regretted and apologise to the organisation straight away. 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. [. They called us Little England, and in a lot of ways we still are.. . 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. Annihilation. 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. Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. The Draxes also owned a slave plantation in Jamaica which they sold in the 18th century. He relinquished his British Army commission on 9 September 1987, thereby retiring after nine years' service as a Coldstreamer. The South Dorset MP, 63, started replacing entries after our enquiry in January. [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. Richard Drax registered the details as the Sunday Mirror revealed his ancestors past and how he still makes a packet from the business. 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. [. Nick Cohen is correct about the wholly negative effect that Enoch Powells views on race and the EU have continued to exert on the UK (How did Enoch Powell, a man with no shame, come to haunt our times?, Comment). Some new arrivals chose to hang themselves rather than face a lifetime of servitude, believing they would be resurrected and transported back to their homelands. [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. 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.. 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. However, official sources in Barbados confirm that Richards father owned the plantation and had passed it on to his oldest son, Richard. 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. 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. The department needs to respond to the very real concerns of beleaguered NHS professionals.Neil MacehiterGreat Shelford, Cambridge. 3784 (Drax Hall). 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. ), was also an MP: for Chester 20 Feb. 1795-1826 and Stockbridge, 1826-1830. Sugar and Black Death went hand in glove. I couldnt stand by and watch these white people carry our struggle, he said. Harvested sugar cane is no longer processed at the plantations but taken to a central processing plant and then refined for export. In 2009, Drax faced criticism from political rivals for 'hiding his aristocratic roots' by not using his full quadruple-barrelled name. 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. I have enjoyed a bountiful carrot harvest, having duped carrot fly by planting seeds in lavatory roll holders. People whose experiences and knowledge of the islands history lend their opinions far more validity than mine. Biography. Powells was a constructive and humane challenge to the entrenched attitudes of psychiatric and nursing professionals. 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. 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. Tweet. A cousin is the 19th and present Lord Dunsany. The comments below have been moderated in advance. In the centre of the park is the Grade I-listed mansion. The Erle family had owned Charborough House, Dorset, since the C16th and through the marriage, Drax took possession of it. "Black life mattered only to make millionaires of English enslavers. I'm a Feng Shui expert and these are the three things I will never allow in a bedroom. [22], Drax endorsed Suella Braverman during the July 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. 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. 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. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. Change). 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. How did Enoch Powell, a man with no shame, come to haunt our times? 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. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The Barbados taxpayer subsidises the price and set it last year at about Bds$150 per tonne. 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. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Drax married his second wife; Eliza, daughter of Commander James Dugdale RN (related to David Cameron). Richard Drax is known for PMQs (2010), The Sarah-Jane Mee Show (2019) and South at Six (1961). 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]. The Draxes built and designed and structured slavery. Richard Drax, better known by her family name Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, is a popular British Politician. By Richard Sandomir. Official sources in Bridgetown, Barbados, confirmed the MP now farms Drax Hall. To burden a son with his fathers sins is egregious enough. 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. The value of the personalty was 10,381. The MP declined to comment this week. The Conservative Government had responded to the amendment that they believed homes should be fit for human habitation but did not want to pass the new law that would explicitly require it. A visiting priest described watching the punishment meted out to a slave who had stolen a pig to feed his starving family. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and around the world. Burke, vol. He also owns a 4.5m holiday villa on nearby Sandbanks, which is rented out at up to 6,734 a week in peak season. Richard Drax is facing calls for an investigation, Mr Drax worth about 150million could also face a parliamentary probe. This might sound controversial coming from a black person, he began, but there are many parts to the slavery story. He then gestured towards a disused windmill made from slabs of limestone hewn from a nearby quarry. 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 .]. 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. Never miss a moment by signing up to our newsletter here. 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 Prestigious school where Princes William and Harry were educated is EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince William's potentially awkward visit to homelessness charity. 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. Moreover, how far back do the woke brigade expect the reckoning to go? The accounts reveal in 2014 it had assets of more than 3.1m, and 3.4m in 2019. 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. When, periodically, the Africans rebelled, the reprisals were shockingly swift and savage. Drax retained his seat in the 2015 general election with an increased majority and the 2017 general election. Barbados is not a Third World country, he said. . Its always intrigued me that Drax Plantation is still functioning. Richard Draxs family profited on the backs of black slaves for many generations. Mr Drax has no plans to return any time soon.. It has a Reparations Commission, whose chair is Sir Hilary Beckles. In response, Drax replied in the Dorset Echo that: 'I cant be held responsible for something that happened 300 or 400 years ago. Here is a key to explain those letter codes: Prominent Liverpool merchant and slave-trader. Richard Drax MP's 150m personal fortune was extracted on his ancestors' network of Caribbean plantations, where 30,000 slaves lost their lives. Beckles told us that historically the Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other family. Discover today's celebrity birthdays and explore famous people who share your birthday. 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.. Others countered that, while the deeds of the Drax dynasty could never be condoned, they had already done much to benefit the community. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. The rape of female slaves was also common, punishable only by a small fine. His grandson Henry concurred. Brother of Henry Drax (-1790) and father of Sarah Frances Drax who married Richard Grosvenor (who became Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor [q.v.]). 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. But who rounded up these slaves and brought them to the African ports where they were purchased? Like many of his ancestors, Drax is a Dorset MP and is probably the wealthiest landowner in the House of Commons, with 5,600 hectares of farmland and woodlands. Its perpetrators lived like princes. He's the MP with the Downton Abbey lifestyle. About Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor, MP. David Comissiong, Barbadoss ambassador to Caricom, says of the Drax family: You cant simply walk away from the scene of the crime. Reparations row MP adds plantation to his register of members interests, Letters: A tax on Drax would be a true Tory cause. Richard Drax cannot be responsible for what his ancestors did 400 years ago. His father died in 2017.. 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. Erle-Drax also owned an estate at Holnest, Dorset where he built an elaborate mausoleum besides the parish church. 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. The mainly 17th-century mansion with its 120ft folly tower is the model for Welland House in the Thomas Hardy novelTwo on a Tower. A fraction of his family fortune, accumulated during centuries of slavery, could do good today for people . Daily Mirror, 5 May 2010; Dorset Echo, 6 May 2010. We will update Richard Drax's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. Richard Drax is the Conservative MP for South Dorset, and has been an MP continuously since 6 May 2010. 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. [1], Drax is the eldest son of Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (19282017)[27] JP DL and The Hon. 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 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. 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. Drax is the eldest son of Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (19282017)JP DL and The Hon. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. and on. Which MP is backing whom the updated list. 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. The roads are filled with Beijing-built buses. Pictured:Richard Drax. His son, also called Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor (q.v. Born on 29 January 1958 in United Kingdom, Richard Drax started his career as Politician . Richard enjoyed a variety of activities, ranging from ceremonial duties, such as Trooping . 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. 5 Oct. 1762, 1st s. of . As a reminder of the links between Dorset and Barbados a road that bisects the Charborough estate is called Sugar Hill. Oscar Cainer tells all. 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. After 10 years as a backbencher he has become increasingly prominent among Tory rightwing Brexiters driving the governments hardline position on Europe. Drax also owns some 125 Dorset properties personally or through family trusts and could be worth as much as 150m. But this was only by comparison with other plantation bosses. Driving around the island, one sees evidence of this everywhere. He owns the Drax Hall sugar. (LogOut/ , money, salary, income, and assets. Medic who doctored his pay and swindled 68,000 from the NHS Nurses are prepared to walk out of A&E and not provide Grinning and bearing it? Richard Anobile, a prolific creator of film books whose friendly collaboration with the anarchic comedian Groucho Marx on a project called "The . We are a people company first and a tax company second. 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 Lord Knight of Weymouth. Richard, who inherited the estate in 2017 on the death of his father, Walter, is the seventh family member to sit in the Commons. Drax kills Thanos. IV, pp. Drax rarely comments on his ancestors history of slave owning. 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". 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. How fitting! The newsletter is emailed out first thing every morning, at 12noon and every evening. . We have estimated There is precedence for compensating descendants of slaves. Black African people did that, but Ive never heard anyone say they should be held responsible. I've never done it before and never done it since but it was a real moment of thoughtlessness and it won't happen again. Richardmarried Christian Drax (born Falos (Fullas or Faloys))circa 1366, at age 29 at marriage place. 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. EXCLUSIVE: Richard Drax replaced a decade of accounts for four farming firms revealing hundreds of thousands of pounds of undisclosed business. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Mr Drax was also criticised for failing to pay beaters at shooting parties on his estate the minimum wage. The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. One only had to watch the parade to see what he meant. Barbadian authorities value the plantation and buildings at Bds$12.5m (4.7m). Sleeping for less than six hours a night could increase your risk of getting infections by more Can you solve this trivia riddle? He was privately educated at Harrow School . He said it was a technical infringement, now corrected. 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. Lets say that things didnt go too well from there, the insider says. The Sawbridge and Erle-Drax families had estates in Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Yorkshire (including Ellerton Abbey), Lincolnshire, Surrey, Suffolk and Barbados. He holds the lordship of the manor of Longburton and is a major landowner in east Dorset. James Tappers insightful contribution (New Generation of Good Lifers who set out to grow their own Christmas, News) includes a tip for self-sufficiency from the renowned expert William Sutherland, who advises the novice grower against planting carrots. he is one of famous Politician with the age 63 years old group. 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. 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). 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. Drax married his second wife; Eliza, daughter of Commander James Dugdale RN (related to David Cameron) in 1998. 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. Brother of Henry Drax (-1790) and father of Sarah Frances Drax who married Richard Grosvenor (who became Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor [q.v.]). A Tory MP has finally admitted to Parliament he owns a former slave plantation where his family made millions. Its time for action! 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. Get weekly highlights from Mirror editor Alison Phillips direct to your email. 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