About Thomas Erle Drax
Lived 1721 – 1789 (aged 67–68). Thomas Erle Drax was a British politician and plantation owner.
Thomas Erle Drax (1721 – December 1789) was an English Tory politician. He served as a Member of Parliament for constituencies in Dorset in the 18th century. He was the son of Henry Drax, British MP and owner of slave plantations in Barbados and Jamaica.
Political career Drax was MP for Corfe Castle from 1744 to 1747, and went on to be MP for Wareham between 1761 and March 1768.
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Who was Thomas Erle Drax?
British Member of Parliament (died 1789)
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Thomas Erle Drax was born in 1721.
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Thomas Erle Drax died in 1789.
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Thomas Erle Drax was a politician and plantation owner.
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