Jamaica College was founded in 1789, making it the sixth oldest continually running high school in the country, after Wolmer's Boys', one of the Wolmer's Schools (1729), Manning's School (1738), St. Jago High School (1744), Rusea's High School (1777) and Titchfield High School (1786). It was first known as the Drax Free School in the parish of St. Ann, and was founded by Charles Drax, a planter of that parish, who was originally from Twickenham, England. Drax came to Jamaica from Barbados, and as a white slave-owning planter, he was elected the representative of St Ann in 1702, the now-defunct parish of St David in 1707, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica in 1708, the now-defunct parish of St George in 1710, and the parish of Saint James Parish, Jamaica in 1719. He died in 1721, and his estate was valued at nearly £9,000, including 307 slaves, of which 167 were male and 140 female.