Chapters: John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax, Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester, Sir Richard Glyn, 9th Baronet, William Ernest Brymer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge Erle-Drax (6 October 1800 5 January 1887) was a British Member of Parliament (MP) during the Victorian era. Born John Sawbridge, he was the son of Samuel Elias Sawbridge of Olantigh, and grandson of John Sawbridge, Lord Mayor of London. John married Jane Frances Erle-Drax Grosvenor, daughter of Richard Erle-Drax Grosvenor, in 1827. On 13 August 1828, his wife's brother Richard Edward Erle-Drax Grosvenor died unmarried, and he succeeded to her family estates, including Charborough House, assuming the surname of Erle-Drax. He was a captain in the East Kent Militia, and raised a troop of the Dorsetshire Yeomanry in 1830 to deal with the Disturbances or Swing Riots of that year; he held the patronage of five church livings, and was a deputy-lieutenant of Dorset in the late 1850s. Erle-Drax built his mausoleum, located beside Holnest church in the Blackmore Vale, fifteen years before his death. He included in the Byzantine-style design a letter box, through which he arranged to have The Times delivered daily. He died on 5 January 1887, at which time the date was added to the epitaph. The mausoleum was demolished in 1935 and replaced by a flat memorial stone. Erle-Drax was the Conservative (Tory) Member of Parliament for Wareham for three periods between 1841 and 1880. Wareham was a pocket borough with just 342 electors, controlled jointly by Erle-Drax and John Hales Calcraft, who arranged for one or the other of them to be returned at each election. Immediately prior to the opening of the polls at one election, he made the following statemen...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2561822
