Geoffrey Drage

They had two sons, one of whom, Charles Hardinge Drage (1897–1983), served in the Royal Navy, attaining the rank of Commander, and in later years wrote a number of biographies.

The election was a nationwide rout for the Liberals, who lost a third of their seats in the House of Commons, but in a letter to The Times newspaper Drage attributed his success to his own campaigning efforts in Derby.

In six months of campaigning he had addressed at least one meeting of working men every week, offering what he called "practical answers" to labour problems.

[3] In 1923 Drage was involved in a controversy over anti-Semitism when in an entry for Poland in the Encyclopaedia Britannica he wrote, "The Eastern Jew is essentially a business or commercial man, but rarely a producer.

In towns, the majority of the shops are owned by Jews, but they are a race apart, hated and despised by the rest of the population, devoted to their religion, which is a primitive type of Judaism.

"Captain Peter Wright, in his very valuable and interesting report, states that the great majority of the poor Jews are of the Eastern type and extreme orthodoxy (Chassidism).