Richard Drake of Esher, was Equerry of the Stable and Groom of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I. He also held office as a Member of Parliament and Justice of the Peace.
Drake, by George Gower, 1577, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Esher Place is a Grade-II listed country house, since 1953 used as a college by the trade union Unite, in Esher, Surrey, United Kingdom. The building is at least the fourth on approximately the same site and mainly dates to the 1890s. It incorporates traces and small parts of some its earlier forebears.
Esher Place today, from the west showing the rear of the house
East View of Esher Place, Surrey, England in 1737. A line engraving drawn and engraved by the brothers Samuel and Nathaniel Buck. The print is dated to 1737.
West View of Esher Place, Surrey 1759, as earlier remodelled by William Kent.
Waynflete's Tower