Henry Drax

Henry Drax (c. 1693–1755) of Ellerton Abbey, Yorkshire, and Charborough, near Wareham, Dorset, was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1718 and 1755.

Drax was the eldest son of Thomas Drax (formerly Shatterden) of Pope's Common, Hertfordshire, Ellerton Abbey and Barbados and his wife Elizabeth Ernle, daughter of Edward Ernle of Etchilhampton, Wiltshire. He is also a grandson of James Drax, a wealthy planter in Barbados, who pioneered the cultivation of sugar with the use of African slave labour.

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