Christopher Hampton of Kirk Braddan petitioned Bishop Thomas Wilson shortly after the Bishop's arrival on the Isle of Man. Hampton's wife had been convicted of lamb stealing and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and he sought the Bishop's licence for a second marriage in consideration of his motherless children. Wilson granted the petition on 26 May, an early demonstration of the pastoral pragmatism that would characterise his episcopacy.
Colonel Edward Smith served as Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man during the period following the 1765 Revestment. He was a vocal critic of the influence of Charles Lutwidge, the Treasury's customs enforcer, whose conduct he described as a "Curse to the Isle of Man."
Colonel Mark Wilks (1759-1831) was born at Kirk Michael Vicarage, the son of the Reverend James Wilks. He served in the Madras army and was Political Resident at the Court of Mysore before being appointed Governor of St Helena by the East India Company in 1813. He was governor when Napoleon arrived in exile in 1815, and the two men developed a mutual respect; Napoleon later lamented his replacement by the "rough and tactless" Sir Hudson Lowe. Wilks was also a member of the House of Keys and Speaker, and a distinguished oriental scholar and historian.
Colonel William Christian (1743-1786) was a frontier soldier and politician in colonial Virginia, descended from the Christian family of the Isle of Man. He married Anne Henry, sister of the revolutionary patriot Patrick Henry, and served as a colonel in the American War of Independence, leading campaigns against the Cherokee. He was killed by Native Americans in 1786.
Columba (c. 521-597), also known as Colm Cille, was an Irish monk who founded the monastery of Iona and is credited with spreading Christianity across Scotland and the wider Irish Sea region. In Manx tradition, his mission is associated with the early Christianisation of the Island, and several keeills (early chapel sites) bear associations with the Columban tradition.
Daniel Laimster petitioned against William Cashin for assault on 27 May 1765, just ten days after the Revestment Act took effect. The petition's timing reflects the social disruption that accompanied the Crown's takeover of the Island.
Daniel Mylrea served as Archdeacon of the Isle of Man and was involved in the revision of the Manx Bible translations during the eighteenth century. He corresponded with the Reverend Philip Moore regarding the translation work, describing their colleague Matthias Curghey as "a public loss to Mona."
David Murray, 2nd Viscount Stormont (1727-1796), later 7th Earl of Mansfield, was a British diplomat and politician connected to the Murray family's interests in the Isle of Man. As a relative of the Dukes of Atholl, he was involved in the political affairs surrounding the lordship of Mann during the Revestment era.
David Reid served as one of the Commissioners appointed to investigate the state of the Isle of Man in 1792. He submitted dissenting observations on the Island's revenues prior to 1765, providing an independent assessment that challenged aspects of the official report.
Edward Christian (1628-1693) was a Deemster of the Isle of Man and the son of Deemster John Christian of Milntown. At the trial of William Christian (Illiam Dhone) in 1662, he refused to participate in proceedings he regarded as unlawful and left for London, where he petitioned the Privy Council on behalf of the Christian family. The Council subsequently ruled the trial unlawful and ordered restitution of Christian's estate.
Deemster Norris served as a Deemster of the Isle of Man during the trial of William Christian (Illiam Dhone) in 1662. As the sole remaining Deemster, after Deemster John Christian's absence and Edward Christian's refusal to participate, Norris was ordered by Deputy Governor Henry Nowell to pronounce the death sentence. The court record notes that he delivered the words with a "formal and pathetical speech," acknowledging the prisoner's former standing. The Privy Council of Charles II subsequently ruled the trial unlawful.
Duncan Campbell was a wealthy Liverpool merchant and shipowner, and the uncle of Elizabeth Betham, whose father Richard Betham was Collector of Customs at Douglas. Campbell employed the navigator William Bligh in his merchant fleet during the peacetime years between Bligh's naval service. Through the Taubman family, Fletcher Christian was also recommended to Bligh, connecting the Manx trading families to the Bounty voyage.
Eamon de Valera (1882-1975) was an Irish revolutionary leader who later served as Taoiseach and President of Ireland. Following the Easter Rising of 1916, he was among the Irish prisoners interned at Knockaloe internment camp on the Isle of Man, before being transferred to other facilities. His internment on the Island forms part of the wider history of wartime internment on Mann.
George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716-1771), served as President of the Board of Trade and was involved in colonial and insular governance during the mid-eighteenth century. His connection to the Isle of Man relates to the political discussions surrounding the Island's trade and customs arrangements in the period leading to the Revestment.
Edward Callister, known as Edward Callister of Kenaa, was a Manx person identified by their connection to the farm or locality of Kenaa on the Isle of Man.
Edward Christian (c.1600-1661) served twice as Deputy Governor of the Isle of Man, holding the titles of Lieutenant and Captain (1628-1639) and Sergeant Major (1642-1643). A former sea captain with East India Company service, he entered Lord Strange's service in 1627. He was arrested on the 7th Earl of Derby's arrival in June 1643 and tried before the Keys on five charges including advocacy of elected Keys and fixed-term Deemsters. He was fined 1,000 marks and sentenced to perpetual imprisonment in Peel Castle, where he died on 19 January 1661 after approximately eighteen years in captivity.
Edward Christian of Bemahague was a member of the Christian family of the Isle of Man, connected to the political upheavals of the seventeenth century.
Edward I (1239-1307) was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Following the death of Magnus, the last Norse King of Mann, in 1265, and a period of Scottish dominance, Edward asserted English overlordship of the Island, and by the 1290s the Isle of Man was effectively under English control. His reign marks the transition of Mann from Norse to English sovereignty.
Edward III (1312-1377) was King of England from 1327 to 1377. In 1333, he granted the lordship of Mann to William Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, in recognition of Montacute's role in the overthrow of Roger Mortimer. This grant established a new line of lordship over the Island.
