Education
Drax was educated at, an independent school in Middlesex, before going to the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester where he graduated with a Diploma in Rural Land Management in 1990, receiving a further Diploma in Journalism in 1995.
Drax was educated at, an independent school in Middlesex, before going to the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester where he graduated with a Diploma in Rural Land Management in 1990, receiving a further Diploma in Journalism in 1995.
Military service
Drax passed out from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned in the British Army joining the Coldstream Guards on 9 December 1978 as a Second Lieutenant. He was given the service number 506831. Drax was promoted Lieutenant on 9 December 1980, before being transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers after active service on 9 December 1983, ending his first period of full time military service.
Drax was reinstated on the Active List on 10 September 1984, beginning his second and final period of regular service.
He retained the rank of Lieutenant with seniority from 10 September 1981 to reflect the three years he had served. He was promoted Captain on 10 March 1986.
He relinquished his British Army commission on 9 September 1987, thereby retiring after nine years" service as a Coldstreamer. Journalism
Drax joined York"s Evening Press as a reporter in 1991, before joining British Broadcasting Corporation South where he appeared on both radio and television media, including the daily television news programme South Today.
Parliamentary career
Drax retained his seat in the 2015 general election with an increased majority.
On 5 February 2013, Drax voted in the House of Commons against a Second Reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Acting 2013 which legalised marriage for same-sex couples. Drax is the eldest son of Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax Justice of the Peace Doctor of Laws and The Honorary Pamela Weeks and a grandson of Admiral The Honorary
Sir Reginald Drax, younger son of the 17th Lord Dunsany thereby being in remainder to the ancient Barony of Dunsany (cr 1462): the second oldest title in the Peerage of Ireland.
Drax married secondly Eliza, daughter of Commander James Dugdale Registered Nurse (related to David Cameron). Drax has married again and has four children in total.
A cousin is the 19th and present Lord Dunsany. His home is the ancestral seat, Charborough House, Dorset and Drax holds the lordship of the manor of Longburton.
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Drax has served as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for South Dorset since 2010. Selected as a Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate in July 2006, at the general election in May 2010 Drax defeated the incumbent Labour Member of Parliament for South Dorset, Jim Knight, later Baron Knight of Weymouth.
At least six of his ancestors, including John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax and the 17th Lord Dunsany, were Members of Parliament for Dorset and Gloucestershire between the 1680s and 1880s.