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. We will update Richard Drax's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. He did this after we asked Companies House about his finances. They are only going after him because he is the last colonial owner.. 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. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. There is precedence for compensating descendants of slaves. The latest examples of this can be seen in the confusing and expensive mess of managing Covid-19. Mr Drax was also criticised for failing to pay beaters at shooting parties on his estate the minimum wage. David Comissiong, Barbadoss ambassador to Caricom, says of the Drax family: You cant simply walk away from the scene of the crime. 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. 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. But it is Richard Drax MPs inheritance in Barbados, amassed over centuries by his ancestors ownership and appalling treatment of African people which drags him into the spotlight. Richard Drax has replaced a decade of accounts for four farming firms. In the Chinese capital, there is even a Barbados development office, these days. 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. Drax has not yet declared the land or its properties in the parliamentary register of members interests. Come on, Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, pay up, pay up and redeem your name!Duncan TomsMachynlleth, Powys. 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. [7] See also [ edit] I rushed in and rushed out. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. At 64 years old, Richard Drax height not available right now. Drax also owns some 125 Dorset properties personally or through family trusts and could be worth as much as 150m. The Drax Hall Plantation in Barbados was added to. [29], A 2020 investigation by The Guardian found that Richard Drax still owns and grows sugar on the same Drax Hall Estate in Barbados that made the family's fortune. The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. The Erle family had owned Charborough House, Dorset, since the C16th and through the marriage, Drax took possession of it. Richard Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset, has inherited the Drax Hall plantation in Barbados after his fathers death in 2017. Once that process is completed, I will of course register it in proper accordance with the rules. The TV presenter and historian David Olusoga says: The Drax family are one of the few who were pioneers in the early stages of the British slave economy back in the 17th century and, generations later, still owned plantations and enslaved people at the end of British slavery in the 1830s. The 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). Richard DRAX MP not (@DraxNot) / Twitter Richard DRAX MP not @DraxNot not a Land owner of a walled estate in Dorset. Even before Stand Up To Racism trained their sights on Mr Drax, a pan-West Indian movement had been agitating for Britain and other European nations to pay vast settlements. 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. The rape of female slaves was also common, punishable only by a small fine. [7] He was promoted captain on 10 March 1986. [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. However, official sources in Barbados confirm that Richards father owned the plantation and had passed it on to his oldest son, Richard. A Tory MP whose family made millions through slavery is facing calls for an investigation into his company records. The comments below have been moderated in advance. [23] After Braverman was eliminated, he supported Liz Truss. Sugar and Black Death went hand in glove. He had relied upon his accountants to file the necessary accounts and, when he was made aware of the unintended omission, instructed them to immediately rectify the position.. 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. Pippa Middleton's seven-month-old daughter Rose 'has been christened at her local village church in Nightmare! 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. A visiting priest described watching the punishment meted out to a slave who had stolen a pig to feed his starving family. Mr Whitehead pointed to a clearing, shaded by tamarind and sandbox trees, where the slaves slept in wooden huts. The shame and despair of being physically attacked by your own child, Do not sell or share my personal information. Drax is only the first target, he told me, evidently fired up for this great new crusade. Barbados is not a Third World country, he said. 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). As always you can unsubscribe at any time. 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. 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.. He was privately educated at Harrow School . Richard Drax was gifted the plantation by his father. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Let me declare my personal position at the outset. As well as being extremely wealthy, Drax is also an outspoken politician. It was suggested the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, has asked wealthy Conservative candidates to shorten their names to appear more in touch with normal people. 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. 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). 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. Powells was a constructive and humane challenge to the entrenched attitudes of psychiatric and nursing professionals. 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. 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. People whose experiences and knowledge of the islands history lend their opinions far more validity than mine. The Barbados taxpayer subsidises the price and set it last year at about Bds$150 per tonne. The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. 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It raises many ethical and philosophical questions. The Drax wealth may be hidden by a great wall of secrecy and unanswered questions away from prying eyes. When he first stood for parliament in 2010, he was asked by the Daily Mirror about his historical responsibility. Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2023. The Prestigious school where Princes William and Harry were educated is EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Prince William's potentially awkward visit to homelessness charity. Richard enjoyed a variety of activities, ranging from ceremonial duties, such as Trooping . 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. Richard Drax has replaced a decade of accounts for four farming firms revealing hundreds of thousands of pounds of undisclosed business. Many Barbadians regard the original owner of this eponymous pile, Sir James Drax, as the devil incarnate. (LogOut/ The value of the personalty was 10,381. Within three weeks, his ministerial circular envisaged a variety of services for mentally ill people. To burden a son with his fathers sins is egregious enough. View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. 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. For the Drax family see entries for Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor and John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax (q.v.). Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (born 29 January 1958), known as Richard Drax, is a British Conservative politician, journalist, landowner and former British Army officer, serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset since 2010. The Dutch also gave him the idea to replace the indentured English and Irish servants who worked his land with imported Africans, whom he deemed able to do the work of three white men. . The Drax family did it longer than any elite family.. Sir Hilary Beckles, a prominent Barbadian historian of slavery, said Drax must acknowledge the wealth brought to the family by slavery. We have estimated Apart from the lamentable examples of ministers of state, headed by a prime minister, we also have a civil service that hasnt the faintest idea how to manage multimillion-pound deals with suppliers of goods and services. See for the whole family, Burke, vol. 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of Ireland. Richard Drax MP was one of the first MPs to call for the criminalisation of trespass. 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. 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. Its like making my great-great-great-grandchildren pay for my wrongdoings not that slavery was considered to be wrong back then. 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. Richard Drax is known for PMQs (2010), The Sarah-Jane Mee Show (2019) and South at Six (1961). By contemporary accounts, James Drax and his early successors were relatively enlightened owners who believed well-treated slaves worked more efficiently. Drax kills Thanos. On the marriage, Sawbridge assumed the name of Erle-Drax. half brother. 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. As a reminder of the links between Dorset and Barbados a road that bisects the Charborough estate is called Sugar Hill. The Draxes had also cemented a place at the heart of the establishment. 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The Mirror's newsletter brings you the latest news, exciting showbiz and TV stories, sport updates and essential political information. [6], Drax was reinstated on the Active List on 10 September 1984, beginning his second and final period of regular service. Oxford and Glasgow universities gave 100,000 and 20million respectively to Caribbean counterparts after it emerged they received donations linked to slavery. The Sawbridge and Erle-Drax families had estates in Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Yorkshire (including Ellerton Abbey), Lincolnshire, Surrey, Suffolk and Barbados. We are a people company first and a tax company second. The "new" Drax killed Lunatik and one of the Blood Brothers. 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? 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 . 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. 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. The Drax family received 4,293 pounds, 12 shillings and 6 pence more than 500,000 today. This might sound controversial coming from a black person, he began, but there are many parts to the slavery story. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and around the world. For if blameless distant relatives are held responsible for the slave trade or indeed any other long-ago transgression where might all this stop? I'm a Feng Shui expert and these are the three things I will never allow in a bedroom. 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.. John Burke, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland (4 vols., London, Henry Colburn, 1835-1838), IV, pp. 5 Oct. 1762, 1st s. of . He then gestured towards a disused windmill made from slabs of limestone hewn from a nearby quarry. My parents died in short succession and administration of both estates is ongoing. The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Clearly there are some glaring contradictions to all this. To provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. 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. Richard Drax, Conservative MP for South Dorset, earlier this year. Richard Draxs family profited on the backs of black slaves for many generations. But the shadow of slavery hangs over the gilded life of Richard Drax, adding that The hardline Tory Brexiters family made a fortune from their Caribbean plantations where thousands died. Now, Drax faces urgent calls for reparations. His father died in 2017. Men such as Barbados army veteran Pedro Hall, 72, a cousin of the great West Indian fast-bowler Wes Hall. 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 strongest-looking men could fetch 20 3,500 in todays money; lusting plantation officers would also buy young girls for their harems. We are a people company first and a tax company second. 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. 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. T71/898 Barbados claim no. They are using the old class thing and that is not what this election is about. The plantation relied on slaves for almost 200 years and the MP said his ancestors involvement was regrettable. Campaigners demanded Mr Drax, 62, pay reparations for harm caused by his familys slave trade. Conservative MP for South Dorset Richard Drax, Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the Caribbean Community Reparations Commission. 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. [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. 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