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The Reverend Edward Drax Free DD (1764–1843) was an English clergyman.
The youngest son of a clergyman, Edward Drax Free became a member of St John's College, Oxford, where he proceeded to the degrees of BA, MA, BD, and DD and was eventually elected to a Fellowship. He was also appointed Vicar of St Giles' Church, Oxford.
In Oxford he lived a very scandalous life and was on the verge of being expelled from St John's College when he was
to Drax in about 1692. 
Drax was educated at Eton College from 1706 to 1707 and was admitted at Magdalene College, Cambridge on 15 May 1710, aged 16. He married his first cousin, Elizabeth Ernle, daughter of Sir Edward Ernle, 3rd Baronet before 23 December 1719. She was the heiress of the Erle and Ernle families, by whom he obtained Charborough House and an electoral interest at Wareham.
Drax was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for Wareham at a by-election on 28 March 1718