Richard Rider (Nova). 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? Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. 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. Black life mattered only to make millionaires of English enslavers and the Drax family did it longer than any other elite family.. 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. [12][non-primary source needed], In the House of Commons he has sat on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee and currently serves on the European Scrutiny Committee. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. Richard Drax registered the details as the Sunday Mirror revealed his ancestors' past - and how he still makes a packet from the business. The Barbados taxpayer subsidises the price and set it last year at about Bds$150 per tonne. IV, pp. [8], He relinquished his British Army commission on 9 September 1987, thereby retiring after nine years' service as a Coldstreamer. 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. NEW ROMNEY1818 - 8 Feb. 1819Family and Education b. [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. 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. 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. For, around 370 years ago, he also pioneered the importation of African slaves to cultivate his lucrative crop. Driving around the island, one sees evidence of this everywhere. 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. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. [7] See also [ edit] His son, also called Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor (q.v. He was promoted captain on 10 March 1986. He is a member of famous Politician with the age 64 years old group. ). 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. Richard Drax, better known by her family name Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, is a popular British Politician. Get weekly highlights from Mirror editor Alison Phillips direct to your email. Richard Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset, has inherited the Drax Hall plantation in Barbados after his fathers death in 2017. Drax since married his third wife, Norwegian-born Elsebet Bdtker, and has four children in total. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. It is an ironic description, not only because would-be visitors driving into the remote sugar plantation over which the house looms are greeted by a keep out sign, daubed on an oil drum. [1], The Barbados Government is seeking reparations from Drax for his ancestors' involvement in slavery. 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. However, Cohen ignores a major Powell speech that has had a long-lasting, permanent and wholly benevolent impact. Men such as Barbados army veteran Pedro Hall, 72, a cousin of the great West Indian fast-bowler Wes Hall. [1] Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and . Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Elsebet Drax (m. 1998), Zara Drax (m. 19851997). Its crazy, Mr Whitehead said of the campaign. 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. So, it seems, this highly charged stand-off is set to drag on. Richard Drax is known for PMQs (2010), The Sarah-Jane Mee Show (2019) and South at Six (1961). [24], He endorsed Boris Johnson in the October 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. 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. I rushed in and rushed out. Yet while other plantations have closed, Mr Drax wished to perpetuate his familys heritage, the manager says. He recently paid Bds$59,375 (22,200) in annual land tax. 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. [. He did this after we asked Companies House about his finances. Since his wealth is based on murder, kidnap and theft, the least he can do . Richard enjoyed a variety of activities, ranging from ceremonial duties, such as Trooping . We have estimated 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. Tweet. 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of Ireland. He served across the world, including Germany, Cyprus, Kenya, Brunei, Hong Kong, the United States, London and three operational tours in Northern Ireland. In the view of Philip Whitehead, 65, who has managed the plantation for 39 years, however, later generations of the Draxs deserve credit for sticking with sugar, through good times and bad. The comments below have been moderated in advance. In recognition of this, a road has been named after Sir James Drax, and the islands oldest school was established, in 1695, with a bequest from his grandson, Colonel Henry Drax. I'm a Feng Shui expert and these are the three things I will never allow in a bedroom. His first wife (divorced 1997) was Zara Legge-Bourke, younger sister of the royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, relations of the Earl of Dartmouth. 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.. . During the election campaign there was some controversy when the Daily Mirror wrote that Drax's ancestors had earned their fortune on slavery. The plantation was added to the register only after we told the MP we were running a story. Dont they have a responsibility as well?. 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. Richard Drax registered the details as the Sunday Mirror revealed his ancestors past and how he still makes a packet from the business. His great-uncle was the celebrated writer and playwright the 18th Lord Dunsany, and his maternal grandfather was General the Lord Weeks. Six were burnt alive, and 11 beheaded. 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. 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. EXCLUSIVE: Revealed: Prison reform boss who drunkenly beat her husband every day after downing white wine Are you allowing your bank to rip you off? Born on 29 January 1958 in United Kingdom, Richard Drax started his career as Politician . 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 . 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. Pippa Middleton's seven-month-old daughter Rose 'has been christened at her local village church in Nightmare! Biography. 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The Draxes also owned a slave plantation in Jamaica which they sold in the 18th century. Drax was born on 29 January 1958 in Westminster, London, into a landowner family. EXCLUSIVE: Richard Drax replaced a decade of accounts for four farming firms revealing hundreds of thousands of pounds of undisclosed business. 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). Here is a key to explain those letter codes: Prominent Liverpool merchant and slave-trader. He said it was a technical infringement, now corrected. We've been true to that purpose since brothers Henry and Richard Bloch founded our company in 1955. About 20m a huge sum was then paid out to compensate slave owners. 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. [13], In 2009, Drax faced criticism from political rivals for 'hiding his aristocratic roots' by not using his full quadruple-barrelled name. 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. On December 13 we told how the MP for South Dorset had taken control of the 250-hectare sugar plantation, which had a slave workforce from 1640-1836. 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But this was only by comparison with other plantation bosses. It sounds a comparatively modest sum, but by then their 200 years of profits had been invested in English properties and businesses. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873. It raises many ethical and philosophical questions. Lets say that things didnt go too well from there, the insider says. His great-uncle was the celebrated writer and playwright the 18th Lord Dunsany, and his maternal grandfather was General the Lord Weeks. Richard Draxs assertion that no one can be held responsible today for what happened many hundreds of years ago might sound a little less disingenuous if he wasnt personally profiting to such a vast extent from the appalling actions of his own ancestors (Wealthy MP urged to pay up for his familys slave trade past, News). 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. 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. 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. Yet his passport still bears his quadruple-barrelled name: Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax. ET. Later, the Draxes married into the Erle family that owned Charborough Park and the sugar profits helped to greatly extend the . Oscar Cainer tells all. 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of Ireland. A database created by University College London showed that Richard Draxs ancestor John Sawbridge Erle-Drax MP, who also lived at Charborough Park, received 4,293 12s 6d a very large sum in 1836 in compensation for freeing 189 slaves. Something went wrong, please try again later. As a reminder of the links between Dorset and Barbados a road that bisects the Charborough estate is called Sugar Hill. 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". The Estate has been in existence since 1086 and is mentioned in the Domesday Book and . Richardpassed away in 1370, at age 33 at death place. They had 7 children: John Drax, Richard Draxand 5 other children. (LogOut/ 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. . "Black life mattered only to make millionaires of English enslavers. Since then, we've grown to have approximately 12,000 offices throughout the United States and around the world. 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. We are a people company first and a tax company second. Lynne added, "Richard Drax is immensely wealthywith wealth exceeding 150 million. 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. But who rounded up these slaves and brought them to the African ports where they were purchased? Here is proof that Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, has a controlling interest in the 621-acre Drax Hall Estate in Barbados. 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. This might sound controversial coming from a black person, he began, but there are many parts to the slavery story. 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 Drax family received 4,293 pounds, 12 shillings and 6 pence more than 500,000 today. March 1, 2023, 6:11 p.m. The estates finances are largely opaque to the public gaze and involve at least six trusts and other disconnected financial entities. 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. David Comissiong, the Barbados ambassador to Caricom, said on Friday: There have been centuries of looting and siphoning off the wealth which should have remained in Barbados. Richard Drax (Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax) was born on 29 January, 1958 in Westminster, London, United Kingdom, is a British politician. 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. Campaigners demanded Mr Drax, 62, pay reparations for harm caused by his familys slave trade. 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. A Tory MP has finally admitted to Parliament he owns a former slave plantation where his family made millions. Drax is the eldest son of Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (19282017)JP DL and The Hon. Drax lives in his family's ancestral seat, Charborough House a Grade I listed manor house in rural Dorset. We revealed he is the wealthiest landowner in the Commons and worth as much as 150million through a series of trusts. Burke, vol. 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. ), became owner of Drax Hall. "He could donate his inheritance to the island on which it stands and still have plenty of property left.. The shame and despair of being physically attacked by your own child, Do not sell or share my personal information. That is for Third World countries. He holds the lordship of the manor of Longburton and is a major landowner in east Dorset. 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. 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". He's the MP with the Downton Abbey lifestyle. [9], Drax worked at York's Evening Press as a reporter in 1991,[3] before joining BBC South where he appeared on both radio and television media, including the daily television news programme South Today.[10]. EXCLUSIVE Richard Drax is the wealthiest landowner in the House of Commons and worth as much as 150 million. 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. Richard Drax's net worth The South Dorset MP, 63, started replacing entries after our enquiry in January. After a big uprising in 1675, more than 100 slaves were brought before a kangaroo court, 17 of whom were instantly pronounced guilty. Genealogy profile for Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor, MP. Pamela Weeks (19312019) and a grandson of Admiral The Hon. Now he could be on the hook for reparations", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Drax&oldid=1139014260, This page was last edited on 12 February 2023, at 22:40. [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. Beckles says Richard Drax should: One: apologise to African people and the people of the Caribbean. As one wag quipped, with the sugar industry and West Indies Test cricket team in decline, shes the islands most famous export. 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. Richard Drax was gifted the plantation by his father. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Many Barbadians regard the original owner of this eponymous pile, Sir James Drax, as the devil incarnate. 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