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. Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023. Change). For attempting to overthrow their plantation owner, in 1692, 42 slaves were castrated at the hands of a woman named Alice Miller, who received ten guineas for her service. If this request is refused, the government intends to take the matter to an international arbitration court. The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. Dont they have a responsibility as well?. Contact Richard Drax This section contains web, social and other contact information for Richard Drax. [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. Richardpassed away in 1370, at age 33 at death place. EXCLUSIVE Richard Drax is the wealthiest landowner in the House of Commons and worth as much as 150 million. In the Chinese capital, there is even a Barbados development office, these days. 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. 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. We revealed in December Mr Drax had failed to register in Members Interests a Barbados sugar plantation he ran. Iniquitously, the government paid the 45,000 Britons still owning slaves at the start of Queen Victorias reign vast sums in compensation for giving them up. 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. REVEALED: Roald Dahl books were neutered by woke consultants aged eight to 30 - led by 'non-binary, asexual, Holiday home owners in Scotland face new SNP tax hike under plans from front-runner to be new First Scotland should just self-identify as an independent country, one SNP member proposed. 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Here is a key to explain those letter codes: Prominent Liverpool merchant and slave-trader. 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. Moreover, how far back do the woke brigade expect the reckoning to go? 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). An updated register was published over Christmas, revealing an apparent scramble to declare father-of-four Mr Draxs previously unregistered business interests. His wife is Elsebet Drax (m. 1998), Zara Drax (m. 19851997). (LogOut/ Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. 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. In the centre of the park is the Grade I-listed mansion. 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? Discover Richard Drax's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. King Charles IIs brother, James, was president of the Royal African Company, the biggest supplier of slaves, and shares were held by such lauded figures as the philosopher John Locke and diarist Samuel Pepys. For all these reasons, and more, I shall continue to fight Richard Draxs corner, uncomfortable as it may be. [6], Drax was reinstated on the Active List on 10 September 1984, beginning his second and final period of regular service. 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). 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? It only began to end after 1833, when slavery was abolished in the British Empire. 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. On his familys side he inherited Olantigh, near Wye, Kent in 1851. It was built by Richard Drax's ancestor, John Sawbridge, who married into the Drax dynasty, and who was able to finance the build following a recent windfall from his sugar-cane estates in the Caribbean - although the money came not from his sugar, but from his slaves. Produce from Draxs firms all with offices on his Charborough estate in Dorset includes barley for brewers and opium poppies for NHS morphine. 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. 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. The Kola Nut in the Atlantic World, The Barbara T. Christian Literary Award for CSA 2023, Kathleen Martnez continues the search for Cleopatra's tomb, Art Exhibition: Tania Marmolejos Alter Egos. 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. 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. Such was Sir Jamess wealth that in 1650 he built the plantation house Drax Hall that still stands today and in which he lived, according to an eyewitness, like a prince. . We will update Richard Drax's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. Men such as Barbados army veteran Pedro Hall, 72, a cousin of the great West Indian fast-bowler Wes Hall. Richard Drax is facing calls for an investigation, Mr Drax worth about 150million could also face a parliamentary probe. 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We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 29 January. The Barbadian revolutionary David Denny thinks otherwise. ), became owner of Drax Hall. They have a responsibility now to make some effort to help repair the damage. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. Drax also owns some 125 Dorset properties personally or through family trusts and could be worth as much as 150m. As a writer who abhors racism in all its forms, I find it uncomfortable to defend Mr Drax, an old Etonian former Coldstream Guard on the right of the Conservative Party. 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. It sounds a comparatively modest sum, but by then their 200 years of profits had been invested in. 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. Drax was promoted lieutenant on 9 December 1980, 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. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old? 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. 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 retained the rank of lieutenant with seniority from 10 September 1981 to reflect the three years he had served. March 1, 2023, 6:11 p.m. Richard Drax has replaced a decade of accounts for four farming firms. He owns the Drax Hall sugar. Born on 29 January 1958 in United Kingdom, Richard Drax started his career as Politician . 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. Black life mattered only to make millionaires of English enslavers and the Drax family did it longer than any other elite family.. Mr Drax, a rich, high-profile British MP, had been picked on precisely because was an easy target. 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. [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. Pamela Weeks (19312019) and a grandson of Admiral The Hon. He is from . 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 being flogged relentlessly for days, his ears were cut off and roasted, and he was forced to eat them. Its always intrigued me that Drax Plantation is still functioning. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] The South Dorset MP, 63, started replacing entries after our enquiry in January. South Dorset MP Richard Drax, 62, own Drax Hall in Saint George, Barbados The plantation had a workforce of 327 enslaved people for nearly 200 years Sir Hilary Beckles is demanding he pays. 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. Richard Drax was gifted the plantation by his father. 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. Many Barbadians regard the original owner of this eponymous pile, Sir James Drax, as the devil incarnate. [. 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. One only had to watch the parade to see what he meant. Just what is the special Eton magic that allows it to turn out epic oafs year after year? [25], Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. Ukrainian soldier takes out five Russian tanks and three armoured vehicles in ONE DAY using US-supplied Ukraine's first lady condemns Putin for 'mercilessly firing at civilians' as 'deliberate missile strike' on 'Big Brother' AI robot is unveiled as government adviser that will monitor the public's opinions in Romania, Wife is shocked after husband of 15 years asks for permission to have an affair: 'I don't know what to do', My Daily Horoscope: What does March 2nd hold for MY star sign? 3784 (Drax Hall). Driving around the island, one sees evidence of this everywhere. 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. [24], He endorsed Boris Johnson in the October 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. 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. 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. After 10 years as a backbencher he has become increasingly prominent among Tory rightwing Brexiters driving the governments hardline position on Europe. 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. 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. 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. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Lets say that things didnt go too well from there, the insider says. . 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. Richard Drax, 1352 - 1370RichardDrax13521370 Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Since his wealth is based on murder, kidnap and theft, the least he can do . He cant be allowed to get away with this, Mr Denny told me this week. 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? Never miss a moment by signing up to our newsletter here. As one wag quipped, with the sugar industry and West Indies Test cricket team in decline, shes the islands most famous export. Barbados is not a Third World country, he said. A cousin is the 19th and present Lord Dunsany. 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. 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