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    Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (born 29 January 1958) is a British Conservative Party politician, landowner, journalist, and Member of Parliament...
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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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    current head of the family is former MP Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, otherwise known as Richard Drax. The family seat is Charlborough House...
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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...
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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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  • owner Reginald Drax (1880–1967), British admiral Richard Drax (born 1958), British politician Hugo Drax, fictional character in the James Bond novel Moonraker...
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  • Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor may refer to: Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor (1762–1819), British MP Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor (1797–1828), British MP, son...
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    campaign in Dorset constituencies. The 2010 election saw Conservative Richard Drax, a former soldier and journalist from a long line of Dorset representatives...
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  • Drax the Destroyer (Arthur Douglas) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Jim Starlin, the character...
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    opposition from various humanitarian organisations, the local South Dorset MP Richard Drax and local authorities. Dorset Council explored legal action to prevent...
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    Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, KCB, DSO, JP, DL (né Plunkett; 28 August 1880 – 16 October 1967), commonly known as Reginald Plunkett or Reginald Drax, was an Anglo-Irish...
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    Drax power station is a large biomass power station in Drax, North Yorkshire, England. It has a 2.6 GW capacity for biomass and had a 1.29 GW capacity...
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    Parliament (MP) for South Dorset from 2001 to 2010. After losing his seat to Richard Drax of the Conservative Party, it was announced Knight would be made a life...
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    Frances Erle-Drax-Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor, in 1827. On 13 August 1828, his wife's brother Richard Erle-Drax-Grosvenor died...
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    July 2024, Hatton was elected MP for South Dorset replacing incumbent Richard Drax who had previously held the seat for 14 years. Following his victory...
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  • inoffensive British cultural tradition, as when Conservative Party MP Richard Drax in 2013 called it a "national institution" that provided "light and harmless...
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    Abbey, North Yorkshire, England. It was built around 1830 for the Fore Erle-Drax family, and has been designated a Grade II listed building by Historic England...
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    wealthy 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...
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    elects one Member of Parliament. The current MP for South Dorset is Richard Drax, a member of the Conservative Party, who was voted in during the 2010...
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    Lloyd Hatton, who gained the seat from Conservative representative, Richard Drax, in 2024. The Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency has been represented...
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    one Labour) by convention exercise only a casting vote. Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell and...
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    conviction overturned, led by Claire Blackman and the MP for South Dorset, Richard Drax. During the campaign to free him, the Criminal Cases Review Commission...
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  • Richard de Drax was Archdeacon of Totnes from 1359 until 1361. Horn, Joyce M., ed. (1964). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 9, Exeter Diocese...
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  • Harry. In 1985 Zara (b. 1966) married Captain Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, known as Richard Drax. Legge-Bourke's brother Harry, born in 1972...
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  • Colonel Sir James Drax (c. 1609 – c. 1662) was an English planter and military officer. Born in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, Drax migrated to the English...
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    Double, MP for St Austell and Newquay (previously endorsed Stephen Crabb) Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset James Duddridge, MP for Rochford and Southend East[citation...
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  • Victoria Gordon-Lennox (née Legge-Bourke; born 1966), first wife of Richard Drax. Captain Harry Russell Legge-Bourke (born 1972) an officer in the Welsh...
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    Drax is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) south-east of Selby, which is best known today as the site of Drax...
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    Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany FRSL FRGS (/dʌnˈseɪni/; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an...
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  • House of Commons Library. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024. Cracknell, Richard; Baker, Carl (2024-07-18). "General election 2024 results" (PDF). House...
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