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    Drax Hall Estate is a sugarcane plantation situated in Saint George, Barbados, in the Caribbean. Drax Hall still stands on the site where sugarcane was...
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    Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (born 29 January 1958) is a British Conservative Party politician, landowner, journalist, and former Member...
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    Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family. Reginald Plunkett Thomas Erle Drax Drax Hall Estate "Obituary: Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax". Bournemouth Echo...
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  • Africans. By the early 1650s, his plantation, Drax Hall Estate, was worked by some 200 enslaved Africans. Drax was known by his contemporaries to provide...
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    Charborough House (category Drax family)
    Elizabeth Drax. Thomas changed his surname to Drax, having become the heir of his wealthy childless uncle Col. Henry Drax, a sugar planter of Drax Hall in Barbados...
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    houses west of the Atlantic—the other two are in Barbados. They are Drax Hall Estate and the Great House at St. Nicholas Abbey Plantation. Notable architectural...
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    1690s by Col. Henry Drax, a wealthy slave owner and sugar planter, of Drax Hall in Barbados, who was looking for an English estate which would produce...
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  • three extant Jacobean-style structures in the Western Hemisphere. Drax Hall Estate, another of the three examples, is also located in Barbados. Newton...
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  • of Frederick Dodsworth, who married John Silvester Smith of Newland Park, Drax. John Silvester was created a Baronet in 1784. His son, the 2nd Baronet,...
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  • campaigning for reparations in Barbados, including calling for the island's Drax Hall Estate, a privately owned former plantation, to be converted into a public...
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    Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany FRSL FRGS (/dʌnˈseɪni/; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish...
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    Winterborne Zelston village hall. The seven residential properties in Almer are owned and let by the Charborough (Drax) Estate. In 1931 the parish had a...
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    Play Diocese of Barbados Discover Barbados TV Districts of Barbados Drax Hall Estate Economy of Barbados Eden Stars FC Education in Barbados Elections in...
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    and poor. The will stipulated that two female black slaves on the Drax Hall estate would be used to keep the school "clean and neat". The will stipulated...
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    1020, in a survey of the estates of the Archbishop of York. After the Norman Conquest, it was part of an estate centred on Drax manor. The only physical...
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    Turner's Hall Woods – park and nature reserve White Hill Bairds Belair Brighton Bulkeley Bulkely Factory Campaign Castle Church View Constant Drax Hall – sugar...
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    Wye College (redirect from Withersdane Hall)
    acres (100 ha) of land: 487  at Coldharbour Farm: 60, 61  from Erle-Drax's Olantigh Estate. Coldharbour was considered difficult, inhospitable, and a suitable...
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    middle class", or upper middle class. The Drax family still owns a large estate in Barbados, and Richard Drax is said to be worth at least £150 million...
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    temporarily moved to nearby Withersdane Hall which had been added to Olantigh's estate in 1867. In 1910, Erle-Drax commissioned architects A. Barnett Brown...
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    Howard of Penrith Viscount Lewisham Lord Claud Hamilton The Hon. Sir Reginald Drax The Hon. Sir Francis Gathorne-Hardy The Hon. Sir Stanley Colville The Hon...
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  • Lovelace (1650–1684), who married Henry Drax of Drax Hall, a plantation owner in Barbados who was the son of Sir James Drax. Lord Lovelace died in 1670. Lady...
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    Grosvenor continued to develop the family's London estates, he rebuilt their country house, Eaton Hall in Cheshire where he also restored the gardens, and...
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  • Constitutional Affairs Select Committee 2010 2010 Jen Craft Labour Richard Drax South Dorset 2010 2010 Lloyd Hatton Labour Flick Drummond Winchester 2019...
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    Tufton, who died young. Lady Frances Tufton, who married Henry Drax, son of Sir James Drax, died without issue. Lady Cicely Tufton (1648–1672), who married...
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    British MP Richard Drax for his ancestors' involvement in slavery. The Drax family still owns a large estate in Barbados; Richard Drax is said to be worth...
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    public image. She earned the part of Sala, the henchwoman to the villainous Drax (Treat Williams) in the superhero film The Phantom (1996), starring Billy...
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  • Robarts in "The Witness for the Prosecution" 1925 Cavendish Butler to Sir Hugo Drax in James Bond movie Moonraker 1979 Chadwick Butler to Sir Humphrey Pengallan...
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    manor to J.S.W. Sawbridge in 1826. Sawbridge married Sarah Frances Erle-Drax, the heiress of Charborough, and assumed her surname. With the coming of...
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    House, was built in the 18th century and was owned by the Grosvenor and Drax families who, for most of its history, let it to a series of wealthy tenants...
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    Retrieved 20 June 2018. "Drax Electric Insights". 21 December 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018. "Drax Electric Insights". Drax Electric Insights. Retrieved...
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