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). [14], Drax campaigned for Brexit during the 2016 referendum. 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. 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. Early life [ edit] Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster, London, into a landowner family. Beckles says Richard Drax should: One: apologise to African people and the people of the Caribbean. [7] See also [ edit] Its time for action! 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 It raises many ethical and philosophical questions. Richard enjoyed a variety of activities, ranging from ceremonial duties, such as Trooping . 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. There is precedence for compensating descendants of slaves. The Mirror's newsletter brings you the latest news, exciting showbiz and TV stories, sport updates and essential political information. His grandson Henry concurred. It was ironic that this had made him a visible target for the reparations-seekers. As Airbnbs shares go through the roof, we need to challenge the Big Tech monopoly, New Generation of Good Lifers who set out to grow their own Christmas. 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. In the centre of the park is the Grade I-listed mansion. Should individual Danes be forced to compensate the United Kingdom for the rape and pillage of Viking invasions? Discover Richard Drax's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. He then gestured towards a disused windmill made from slabs of limestone hewn from a nearby quarry. It has a Reparations Commission, whose chair is Sir Hilary Beckles. Richard Drax, 64, has reportedly been threatened with legal action in the international courts by politicians on the Caribbean island if he refuses to comply with their demands. The Drax Hall plantation is not referred to in Richard Draxs Register of Members Interests declaration, and we could not find any family document referring directly to the plantations in the public domain since his great-grandmothers will in 1916, when the Baroness Dunsany bequeathed her estates and plantations in Barbados to her son, Richards grandfather. 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. I rushed in and rushed out. 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. Drax has not yet declared the land or its properties in the parliamentary register of members interests. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. During the election campaign there was some controversy when the Daily Mirror wrote that Drax's ancestors had earned their fortune on slavery. Its conical tower once held a huge bell that tolled at dawn each morning, summoning the slaves to their 12 hours of back-breaking toil. Since his wealth is based on murder, kidnap and theft, the least he can do is return his plantation in Barbados to its rightful owners, the people who live there now. , money, salary, income, and assets. 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. [23] After Braverman was eliminated, he supported Liz Truss. The Barbadian revolutionary David Denny thinks otherwise. 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. The mausoleum was demolished in 1935 and replaced by a flat memorial stone. Drax was reinstated on the Active List on 10 September 1984, beginning his second and final period of regular service. [30] The Reparations Commission wants Drax Hall to be returned to Barbados, to be made into a museum. Burke, vol. Black life mattered only to make millionaires of English enslavers and the Drax family did it longer than any other elite family.. Richard Drax registered the details as the Sunday Mirror revealed his ancestors' past - and how he still makes a packet from the business. The Draxes also owned a slave plantation in Jamaica which they sold in the 18th century. Slavery was the business of buying and selling. "He could donate his inheritance to the island on which it stands and still have plenty of property left.. Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. 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. One only had to watch the parade to see what he meant. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873. 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. 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.. Drax rarely comments on his ancestors history of slave owning. Yet his passport still bears his quadruple-barrelled name: Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. At Olantigh, large picture galleries and collections of art, Venetian Towers and garden ornaments, such as a huge fountain at the entrance, were added. Daily Mirror, 5 May 2010; Dorset Echo, 6 May 2010. [8], He relinquished his British Army commission on 9 September 1987, thereby retiring after nine years' service as a Coldstreamer. 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. That our great reformers led the world in ending it is often overlooked. It provided a sound education for the superstar singer Rihanna. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. Before he first stood for election, in 2010, David Cameron apparently urged him to de-toff his image, whereupon he declared himself an ordinary man of Dorset. 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.'. By Richard Sandomir. Its perpetrators lived like princes. "The Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other", he said. Selected as a Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate in July 2006, at the general election in May 2010 Drax defeated the incumbent Labour Member of Parliament for South Dorset, Jim Knight, later Baron Knight of Weymouth. 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. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. 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. The department needs to respond to the very real concerns of beleaguered NHS professionals.Neil MacehiterGreat Shelford, Cambridge. Others countered that, while the deeds of the Drax dynasty could never be condoned, they had already done much to benefit the community. IV, p. 211. 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). Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Elsebet Drax (m. 1998), Zara Drax (m. 19851997). 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. Sir Hilary Beckles, a prominent Barbadian historian of slavery, said Drax must acknowledge the wealth brought to the family by slavery. The plantation was added to the register only after we told the MP we were running a story. The "new" Drax killed Lunatik and one of the Blood Brothers. Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster. His great-uncle was the celebrated writer and playwright the 18th Lord Dunsany, and his maternal grandfather was General the Lord Weeks. 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. The strongest-looking men could fetch 20 3,500 in todays money; lusting plantation officers would also buy young girls for their harems. Barbados is wholly justified in asking for the . One of only three Jacobean mansions in the Americas, the official Barbados tourism website lists it as one of the islands seven wonders. This is home to Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset, who lives in the palatial Grade I-listed Charborough House, hidden from public view within the 700-acre private grounds. I'm a Feng Shui expert and these are the three things I will never allow in a bedroom. Drax is only the first target, he told me, evidently fired up for this great new crusade. Dont they have a responsibility as well?. It gave us our parliament and law courts. We have estimated His great-uncle was the celebrated writer and playwright the 18th Lord Dunsany, and his maternal grandfather was General the Lord Weeks. Companies House said failure to keep records updated could result in action. They were beaters hired for a game-shoot he hosted. Drax denied the accusations, saying that he used the shortened version of his name only because of the "logistic mouthful", while Cameron's comments were a "throw away joke". 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of Ireland. Together . Black African people did that, but Ive never heard anyone say they should be held responsible. Just what is the special Eton magic that allows it to turn out epic oafs year after year? 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. Richard, who inherited the estate in 2017 on the death of his father, Walter, is the seventh family member to sit in the Commons. Richard Drax must live on a different planet to the many of his constituents desperately struggling to make ends meet. 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 one wag quipped, with the sugar industry and West Indies Test cricket team in decline, shes the islands most famous export. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. In Barbados, the imposing plantation house, Drax Hall, built around 1650, still stands the oldest house in the western hemisphere and sugar is still grown on the plantation. Once that process is completed, I will of course register it in proper accordance with the rules. 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. ET. The plantation relied on slaves for almost 200 years and the MP said his ancestors involvement was regrettable. Richard Drax was gifted the plantation by his father. 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. Its like making my great-great-great-grandchildren pay for my wrongdoings not that slavery was considered to be wrong back then. 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. 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? 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. The Drax family did it longer than any elite family.. This was a crime against humanity and we impose upon him [Mr Drax] and his family a moral responsibility to contribute to the effort to repair the damage.. We are a people company first and a tax company second. Sugar and Black Death went hand in glove. Conservative MP for South Dorset Richard Drax, Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the Caribbean Community Reparations Commission. Chinese labourers (paid less than the Barbadian minimum wage) construct yuan-funded roads and buildings. Thus the descendants of a much wronged people can benefit from a new hospital, a well-equipped school or some well-planned housing. It sounds a comparatively modest sum, but by then their 200 years of profits had been invested in English properties and businesses. 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. Richard Drax (Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax) was born on 29 January, 1958 in Westminster, London, United Kingdom, is a British politician. People whose experiences and knowledge of the islands history lend their opinions far more validity than mine. . Mr Drax had asked for their discussions to be private, Im told, but he arrived to find Ms Mottley accompanied by a coterie of messianic reparations campaigners. Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023. The newsletter is emailed out first thing every morning, at 12noon and every evening. This is a part of the nations history, from which we must all learn.. A Tory MP whose family made millions through slavery is facing calls for an investigation into his company records. 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. .]. [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". Reparations row MP adds plantation to his register of members interests, Letters: A tax on Drax would be a true Tory cause. 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? Driving around the island, one sees evidence of this everywhere. We will update Richard Drax's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. 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. The latest figures show an average family is paying 400 more a month for. Richard Drax is facing calls for an investigation, Mr Drax worth about 150million could also face a parliamentary probe. 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. [. Richard Anobile, a prolific creator of film books whose friendly collaboration with the anarchic comedian Groucho Marx on a project called "The . 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. Pictured:Richard Drax. Oscar Cainer tells all. His brother William took their methods to Jamaica where the former plantation area is also still known as Drax Hall. Their descendants now press for a redistribution of what they see as the proceeds of a terrible crime, committed centuries ago by long-dead Draxes, leaving the family with the longest continuous link to the exploitation of the plantation system in Britains colonies. His first wife (divorced 1997) was Zara Legge-Bourke, younger sister of the royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, relations of the Earl of Dartmouth. 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. How did Enoch Powell, a man with no shame, come to haunt our times? He did this after we asked Companies House about his finances. A visiting priest described watching the punishment meted out to a slave who had stolen a pig to feed his starving family. 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. 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. His first home was a cave and his early farming ventures failed. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and . The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. 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. My parents died in short succession and administration of both estates is ongoing. Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. 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. 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. This might sound controversial coming from a black person, he began, but there are many parts to the slavery story. 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. [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. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. Men such as Barbados army veteran Pedro Hall, 72, a cousin of the great West Indian fast-bowler Wes Hall. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 29 January. EXCLUSIVE: Richard Drax replaced a decade of accounts for four farming firms revealing hundreds of thousands of pounds of undisclosed business. 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? Richard Drax's 17th-century ancestors James and William sailed to Barbados in the late 1620s, . Drax also owns some 125 Dorset properties personally or through family trusts and could be worth as much as 150m. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. Erle-Drax also owned an estate at Holnest, Dorset where he built an elaborate mausoleum besides the parish church. 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. Beckles told us that historically the Drax family has done more harm and violence to the black people of Barbados than any other family. He is a member of famous Politician with the age 64 years old group. 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. (LogOut/ Richardpassed away in 1370, at age 33 at death place. 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. To burden a son with his fathers sins is egregious enough. 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.. In Bridgetowns newly republican corridors of power, there is, of course, a wholly different viewpoint. [7] He was promoted captain on 10 March 1986. 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. Drax married his second wife; Eliza, daughter of Commander James Dugdale RN (related to David Cameron). and on. [28], At least six of his ancestors, including John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax and the 17th Lord Dunsany, were Members of Parliament for Dorset and Gloucestershire between the 1680s and 1880s. Male birth control gel you rub on your SHOULDERS could be available within a decade as scientists claim What lack of sleep REALLY does to your face: Expert reveals the warning signs your skin is suffering. But for all his wealth and power, there is a dark shadow hanging over Richard Drax his familys historical links with slavery in the plantations of the West Indies, which are now prompting mounting calls from former Caribbean colonies for reparations. NEW ROMNEY1818 - 8 Feb. 1819Family and Education b. But after he began experimenting with new methods of sugar production using techniques and equipment gleaned from the Dutch and Portuguese who cultivated it in Brazil his fortunes were quickly transformed. Annihilation. 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. It sounds a comparatively modest sum, but by then their 200 years of profits had been invested in. Once we have made him pay, we are coming after the Royal Family.. 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. [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. They justify this by claiming the psychological, social and economic damage caused by slavery continues today. The shame and despair of being physically attacked by your own child, Do not sell or share my personal information. 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. In 2013, the BBC noted that his ancestor John Erle-Drax, who had an estate in Barbados, was recorded in a database created by University College London as having received 4,293 12s 6d in compensation for 189 slaves when slavery was abolished. The MP declined to comment this week. The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. That is for Third World countries. 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[1], Drax is the eldest son of Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (19282017)[27] JP DL and The Hon. 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. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and . 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. He was privately educated at Harrow School before going to the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester where he graduated with a diploma in rural land management in 1990, receiving a further diploma in journalism in 1995. To provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. A cousin is the 19th and present Lord Dunsany. In 2009, Drax faced criticism from political rivals for 'hiding his aristocratic roots' by not using his full quadruple-barrelled name. 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. 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). 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. If this request is refused, the government intends to take the matter to an international arbitration court. 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