Peel townsman of the later eighteenth century. He was among the inhabitants of Peel who signed the paper delivered to George Moore on 16 July 1759, in their own names and on behalf of the town, asking him to do everything in his power for the good of the harbour of Peel and for the good of the inhabitants. His name appears in the list with a mark against it.

Thomas Gawne, First Deemster of the Isle of Man in the early nineteenth century. He presided over one of the set-piece trials of the period. James McCrone was prosecuted for perjury on an information preferred by Robert Cunninghame, Resident Attorney-General of the Isle of Man, before the Honourable Thomas Gawne as His Majesty's First Deemster. The trial opened on Thursday 7 September 1820 and ran by adjournment to the evening of Saturday the 9th, and McCrone was honourably acquitted. A full report was printed, with copies of the records of the several proceedings and of the evidence. The Home Office papers catch him on more ordinary business. In October 1818 the Lieutenant-Governor forwarded to Lord Sidmouth an application from Deemster Gawne to be paid for extra work, and Gawne wrote on his own behalf on the 28th of that month to the same effect. In August 1830 John Quayle of Peel, who had been a Coroner for many years, petitioned with a complaint about the behaviour of Thomas Gawne and George Dumbell in court on 15 July that year, in a dispute over the value of land involving a Mrs Kelly and John Taggart. He served in the Island's forces as well. A Thomas Gawne, Esquire, is the captain at the head of the officers of the Manx Yeomanry Cavalry raised in 1796.

Thomas Kelly of Doolough Farm, Jurby, who emigrated to Ohio in 1827 and kept the best of the Manx emigrant diaries. He left the Island on 6 July 1827, taking with him his father, his sister, his wife and five daughters, and ten others went with them. His letter home was printed in the Manx Sun on 18 March 1828, setting out how much better things were in America and naming the Duke of Atholl's chief tithe proctor, James McCrone, among the people the emigrants were glad to have left behind. The diary he kept is the reason he is remembered. Of the several that survive from the Manx emigration it is the best known, and also the most attractive and the most reflective. He was still writing in 1845, nearly twenty years after he left, and was then very conscious of how much work there still was to do.

Thomas Lutwidge (c. 1670-?) of Whitehaven was an extensive merchant and ship-owner who served as high-sheriff of Cumberland. He was the father of Charles Lutwidge, the Treasury's anti-smuggling enforcer on the Isle of Man, and the grandfather of Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge, who was a friend of Nelson. The Lutwidge family's commercial and official connections linked Whitehaven closely to the Isle of Man.

One of the two members of the House of Keys sent to Britain over the sale of the Island in 1765. The Keys resolved that Thomas Moore and Hugh Cosnahan, gentlemen and members of their House, be their commissioners in the name and on behalf of the people of the Isle, to take such steps as they were advised to support and maintain the constitution, rights and privileges of the Island by application to the ministry or parliament of Great Britain. The two of them presented the petition of the House of Keys to the Commons, on behalf of themselves and the rest of the Keys as representatives of the people. The petition was afterwards used before the Commissioners of Inquiry to prove the delegation itself, and to prove that no meeting of the Keys was called by the Governor until 19 March, close on a month after the transaction of the sale had been closed. A Thomas Moore, Deemster of the Isle of Man, was examined by the same Commissioners at Douglas on 26 and 27 September and on 5 and 7 October 1791, on the constitution and on the Lord's game. A Thomas Moore also signed the report on the Isle of Man Bill addressed to Lieutenant-Governor Richard Dawson on 27 April 1780, alongside John Quayle and Wadsworth Busk.

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693-1768), served twice as Prime Minister. His governments were closely involved in the political discussions about the Isle of Man's smuggling trade that led to the Revestment of 1765, though the Act itself was passed under his successor George Grenville.

The Rev. Thomas Quayle, Vicar of Kirk Onchan, and one of the clergy who put the Manx scriptures into their own tongue. The division of the Old Testament among the Manx clergy under Bishop Hildesley is recorded book by book, and the first book of Kings fell to him. Samuel Gell, Vicar of Kirk Lonan, took the first book of Samuel and Joseph Cosnahan of Braddan the second. John Christian of Marown took the second book of Kings. Daniel Gelling of Malew took the first book of Chronicles and John Gell of Lezayre the second. He appears among the improving landowners of the Island as well. A Thomas Quayle is named with Basil Quayle, J. J. Bacon, the Rev. John Crellin, the Rev. Daniel Gelling and others in the list of those who were bringing Manx farming forward at the end of the century, when a local newspaper remarked in 1793 that Basil Quayle's land afforded the best example of a complete farm carried on upon the system of the best cultivated counties in England.

Thomas Radcliffe, merchant and member of the House of Keys. He was one of seventeen named Manx merchants who signed a petition to the Governor in 1769 setting out the economic devastation the Revestment of 1765 had caused. He sat in the Keys through the years that followed, and his signature stands on the Acts promulgated at Tynwald beside those of the Taubmans, the Christians, the Moores and Thomas Gawne. The survey of the principal estates made in 1798 puts a Mr T. Radcliffe at Gourdon in Kirk Patrick. The family had been in the Island's service well before him. Samuel Radcliffe of Gourdon was Captain of the parish company of Kirk Patrick in 1651, and was examined in the inquiry into the rising: he said he had never known of the country rising until the head or great court day, and he was among those who gave evidence about the design to surprise Castle Rushen.

First Earl of Derby and Lord of Mann, known in the Manx sources chiefly through his marriage and his family's succession. He married Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby, sole heir of John, Duke of Somerset, who had first been married to Edmund, son of Owen Tudor, and was the mother of Henry VII. Her monument in Henry VII's chapel records the marriage, together with her foundation of the colleges of Christ's and St John's at Cambridge and of divinity lectures at Cambridge and Oxford, and that she lived to see her grandson Henry VIII crowned. The Stanley succession lists place him after Sir John Stanley and his son, and before his own descendants held the Island as Earls of Derby into the seventeenth century.

Second Earl of Derby and Lord of Mann, and the grantor of a charter confirming the possessions of the Manx church. A charter of Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby and Lord of Man, dated 28 March 1505, gave and granted to Huan, Bishop of Sodor, a confirmation of the church lands, tithes, possessions and liberties which had been granted by his predecessors, the Kings and Lords of Man, to the Church and Bishop of Sodor. It is printed in the Monasticon Anglicanum, and the Manx Society's editors used it in reconstructing the succession of the bishops, since it fixes Huan Hesketh in the see in 1505. He succeeded his grandfather, the first Earl, who died in 1504.

Manx advocate, and the compiler who first put the Island's statutes into alphabetical order. His Statutes and Ordinances of the Isle of Man, now in force, alphabetically arranged was printed at Douglas by Briscoe in 1792, in octavo, running to a hundred and seventy pages, and inscribed to Alexander Shaw, Lieutenant-Governor and Chancellor. A further edition followed in 1797, and it was to Stowell's edition that later writers sent readers who wanted the Act of Settlement of 1703 and the explanatory Act promulgated on 6 June 1704 at length, those being the Acts the inhabitants esteemed as their Magna Charta. His wife Ann, born Brown, died on 27 July 1783 aged forty-four. The Malew inscription records her as the mother of fifteen sons and one daughter.

Thomas Tubman of Peel, a merchant of the Island in the seventeenth century. He appears in the Chancery records as a litigant over the covenants of the sea trade, suing Edward and James Taylor of Millom in Cumberland. The entry stands in the Chancery book for 1600 alongside a suit of Deemster Ewan Christian's, and modern work on Manx maritime trade cites the two together as instances of the kind. The name is common in the Island's records of the period and it takes several forms. Thomas Tubman senior and Thomas Tubman junior both drew a soldier's pay of twenty shillings a year in the garrison accounts, along with a Sir William Tubman among the chaplains. A Thomas Tubman of the Bowling Green served as a sideman in the churchwardens' presentments. A Thomas Tubman signed among the Twenty-Four Keys at a Tynwald Court in the reign of Lord Derby, and a John Tubman signed the ecclesiastical constitutions offered to the Governor, officers and Keys in February 1703. A licence for the marriage of Thomas Tubman and Bessy Norris was among those granted by Thomas Parr on the south side of the Island, entered in 1693. The spelling moved with the century. One antiquary tracked it through Tunman, Tumman and Tubman to Taubman, so this is the family that later held the Nunnery and gave the House of Keys two of its Speakers.

Thomas Whittam, Chief Constable of the town and district of Douglas, and gaoler of the Fort there. He was examined by the Commissioners of Inquiry at Douglas on 3 October 1791, and had then held both offices for between three and four years. His examination is the sixty-first in Appendix C of their report, printed between the Water-Bailiff George Savage's and that of Daniel Quark, a Coroner of Garff Sheading. What he had to say was about the state of the prison. The Fort at Douglas was for the confinement of persons guilty of felony or breach of the peace, and had formerly been used for that purpose, but he told the Commissioners it was at present in a very ruinous condition and insufficient for confining offenders without having a guard set over them. The building he was describing was an old one. The Manx antiquaries identified the Fort with the tower that stood at the bight of the Pollock Rock, at what had been the entrance to Douglas harbour, built of hard stone with a small round tower rising above the rest of the building in the centre. They thought it one of the most interesting remains on the Island, and they cite Whittam's evidence of 1791 when they describe it.

Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1698 until his death in 1755. The see fell vacant on the death of Baptist Levinz. The mandate for Wilson's induction was issued by John Sharp, Archbishop of York, at Westminster on 20 January 1697, directing the Archdeacon and clergy of the diocese to install him in the real, actual and corporeal possession of the bishopric of the Isle of Man and of Sodor and Man, with its rights, dignities, honours and emoluments. Samuel Wattleworth officiated as Archdeacon at the instalment. The witnesses named include N. Sankey, P. Heywood, L. Christian, Richard Hartley, Henry Norris, John Cosnahan, J. Rowe, John Parr, Daniel McYlrea and Thomas Huddleston. The act was entered in the archives on 13 August 1698 by J. Woods, Registrar. His largest intervention in Manx affairs was not ecclesiastical. In 1703 he acted between the tenth Earl of Derby and the Island's tenants over the uncertainty of their holdings. His diary for 6 September 1703 records that he had been, he hoped, a happy instrument in bringing the Lord of Man and his people to an agreement, the Earl having that day condescended to settle them on a certain tenure, or rather to restore them to the ancient tenure which had been uncertain for more than a hundred years. In his own history of the Island he set out the case as the tenants made it. They claimed an ancient tenure which they called the tenure of the straw, by which they might leave their estates to posterity under certain rents, fines and services, and the Lord's officers would not allow it because of the breaks made in that manner of holding by leases. Commissioners were appointed to treat with the people in the Earl's presence, and the outcome was the Act of Settlement. He also preached before the Tynwald Court in 1736, at the first Tynwald held by James, second Duke of Atholl, and that sermon was printed by the Manx Society in the same volume as the account of the Duke's entry. In 1751 he wrote to congratulate the new governor on his arrival, and in 1753 he consecrated a new chapel at Ramsey, where his son preached the sermon. He kept an open table, and his kitchen was crowded with the poor and the needy. One nineteenth-century account records that he never interfered in temporal or political matters unless the inhabitants particularly called on him to serve them. Philip Moore, later Rector of Kirk Bride, was among those whose education was completed under him. His son, the Rev. Dr Wilson, was rector of St Stephen's Walbrook and prebendary of Westminster, and was buried there after dying at Bath.

Thorwald is a Norse figure commemorated on the Isle of Man through runic cross-slabs, most notably the Thorwald's Cross at Kirk Andreas, which depicts scenes from Norse mythology, including the figure of Odin being consumed by the wolf Fenrir. The cross is one of the finest examples of Norse-influenced art on the Island and dates from the tenth century.

Toni Onley, born Norman Antonio Onley (20 November 1928 - 29 February 2004), was a Douglas-born painter who trained at the Douglas School of Fine Arts before emigrating to Canada in 1948, where he became one of the country's leading watercolourists, celebrated for landscapes of Canada's northern and western coastlines. He was elected to the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1999. He died in a plane crash near Maple Ridge, British Columbia, in 2004.

Walter Lutwidge was an important merchant in early eighteenth-century Whitehaven whose letter books provide a valuable window into the tobacco trade that brought significant prosperity to the port. He boasted around 1740 that he was worth £30,000, and there is evidence that he and a relative named Thomas Lutwidge were heavily involved in defrauding the customs in the early 1720s. His precise family connection to Charles Lutwidge, the Revestment-era customs enforcer on the Isle of Man, is uncertain.

Naval officer, commander of the Bounty, and for a time a Manx son-in-law. He was not a Manxman by birth, but he served on the Island before he was famous, based there in a revenue cutter intercepting smugglers. On 4 February 1781 he married Elizabeth Betham at Kirk Onchan. Her father Richard Betham was Collector of Customs for the Island. The Manx connection ran on into his career. Duncan Campbell, whose family the Bethams had married into, gave him command of the Britannia on the Jamaica run from 1783 to 1787, and Bligh wrote to Campbell from the Britannia at Jamaica on 11 June 1787. The two families stayed close. Bligh visited Campbell's son Dugald at Salt Spring in 1793 on his way back to Jamaica in the Providence, and was the principal witness to Dugald Campbell's will, drawn in London in 1813. The Bounty was fitted out by government under the care of Sir Joseph Banks, to carry the breadfruit and other plants from Otaheite to the West Indies, and sailed from Spithead on 23 December 1787 under Bligh's command. Three of those aboard had Manx connections: Bligh himself by marriage, Fletcher Christian, and the midshipman Peter Heywood, whom Bligh had come to know through the Heywood family on the Island. After the mutiny he is reported to have said that he had reason to curse the day he ever knew a Christian, a Heywood, or any Manxman.

William Brew, one of the founders of the Manx Society at Cleveland. The society was formed in 1851 by five men with characteristically Manx names, James Christian, John Corlett, William K. Corlett, William Cubbon and William Brew, to assist and take care of the poor immigrant from the Isle of Man who arrived with an empty pocket or in feeble health. It holds an honoured place among the pioneer bodies of its kind in America. The community it served had grown quickly. The first Manx families reached the Cleveland district in 1826, and in 1827 something like seventy families, about two hundred people in all, arrived in Ohio.

William Callow of Cloughbane, member of the House of Keys and High Bailiff of Castletown. He was one of seventeen named Manx merchants who signed a petition to the Governor in 1769 setting out the economic devastation the Revestment of 1765 had caused. He sat in the Keys from 1767, and the list of the House printed in 1798 gives him as William Callow, Esquire, of Cloughbane, second in seniority only to the Speaker John Taubman. The survey of the principal estates made in the same year puts him at Cloughbane in Maughold, with Mrs D. Callow at Ballakilly and a Mr G. Callow at Ballaglass in the same parish. He served as High Bailiff of Castletown and of the district belonging to it. In that character he took the deposition of an officer of the port of Derbyhaven about a ship wrecked on the coast overnight, in which the captain and all the crew perished and nothing was saved alive but one dog.

William Cashen (1838-1912) was a Manx-speaking fisherman born in Dalby who, after being shipwrecked in Peel Bay and nursed back to health there, settled in Peel as a herring-fishing skipper, later serving nineteen years as assistant harbour master and then seventeen years as custodian of Peel Castle. Encouraged by Sophia Morrison and the Manx Language Society, he recorded his own notes on Manx folklore and folk life in an old ledger, which Morrison edited and published shortly after his death as William Cashen's Manx Folk-lore (1912), a key source for Manx oral tradition.

William Cashin was involved in an assault against Daniel Laimster on the Isle of Man in May 1765, just days after the Revestment Act took effect. Laimster's petition against him is one of the earliest documented post-Revestment disputes.

William Christian, recorded among the settlers transported into Virginia in 1652. A patent of that year for land in Northumberland County, lying north upon the Potomac River and east upon a branch of it dividing the tract from land commonly called the Fort land, was granted on the transportation of forty persons, and William Christian is named among them. The Manx Christians of Virginia have a documented origin three years later. In 1655 two brothers, William and Jonathan Christian of Maughold, went out to the colony, and a family of Cottiers from Lezayre went at the same time. The two families afterwards intermarried. The Christians acquired considerable tracts of land in Virginia, and descendants of the family came to be possessed of an ample fortune.

The Rev. William Clucas, Rector of Bride and Vicar-General. He held the rectory at the end of the eighteenth century, the last in a line that ran through John Roberts, a Parr, John Curghey, a Mylrea and Philip Moore before him. He was Vicar-General at the same time, and he farmed the Ballakilly estate. The parish register at Bride begins in 1693. In 1791 the Duke of Atholl gave five pounds British to the poor of the parish in memory of the deceased Duchess, and the visitor who recorded all this also noted the ages on the stones in Bride churchyard: seventy-three, seventy-four, seventy-seven, seventy-nine and eighty-four.