Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations

By Paul Lashmar, Reader in Journalism, City St George's, University of London

Rich British aristocratic families with a legacy of owning colonial slave plantations are often accused by campaigners that their wealth solely originates from these plantations. One frequent target of this criticism has been the Drax family of Dorset, which is headed by Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, who was the Conservative MP for South Dorset until July 2024.

Historian Alan Lester of the University of Sussex…

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