James Drinkwater was a Manxman who became mayor of Liverpool. In 1811, he wrote to the Lords of the Admiralty begging for the release of Manx fishermen impressed at Douglas by Lieutenant Hawkes of HMS Maria after Hawkes had promised not to interfere with the fishery.
James McCrone served as the Duke of Atholl's chief tithe proctor on the Isle of Man. He was described by emigrants as a hard and unsympathetic figure and was named in Thomas Kelly's 1827 letter from Ohio as one of those the Manx emigrants were glad to have left behind.
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl (1690-1764), was the last private Lord of Mann. He inherited the sovereignty of Mann through his mother, Amelia Stanley, and held the lordship until his death. The Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765 (the Revestment Act), passed shortly after his death, transferred the sovereignty of the Island from his successors to the British Crown for £70,000.
Joe Kelly was a Manx emigrant who settled in the Cleveland, Ohio area during the nineteenth century, forming part of the significant Manx community in the American Midwest.
John Cawle was a Manx sailor who served aboard HMS Temeraire at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and lost his right arm in the engagement. He returned to Kirk Bride, a parish of fewer than 700 souls, and became a schoolteacher.
John Christian served as Deemster of the Isle of Man and was the brother of William Christian (Illiam Dhone). Described in the Journals of the House of Commons as one of "two of the ablest and honestest gentlemen in the island," he was summoned to London during the Commonwealth to be consulted about Manx laws and other matters.
John Christian was a Manx Quaker who was banished from the Isle of Man during the 1660s, part of the wider persecution of Quakers on the Island under the restored Stanley lordship. Banished Quakers from Mann were among the early Manx settlers in the American colonies.
John Clucas was one of seventeen named Manx merchants who signed a petition to the Governor in 1769 documenting the economic devastation caused by the Revestment of 1765.
John Cockrane was a Manx sailor rated as Boy Third Class who served at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. He was twelve years old and was wounded during the engagement.
John Corlett was a Manx emigrant who settled in the Cleveland, Ohio area during the nineteenth century, forming part of the significant Manx community that established itself in the industrial cities of the American Midwest.
John E. Christian was a member of the Christian family of Manx origin who settled in America. He forms part of the wider pattern of Manx emigration to the United States.
John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk (1739-1820), was a British peer and politician. His connection to the Isle of Man relates to his involvement in the parliamentary affairs of the late eighteenth century.
John Kneene was a Ramsey fisherman whose boat was illegally seized in Ramsey Bay in November 1765, just six months after the Revestment. He petitioned against the seizure alongside fellow fishermen John Sayle and John Wattleworth.
John Moore of "The Hills," Douglas, served as Speaker of the House of Keys on the Isle of Man and was the uncle of Edward Moore Gawne, who succeeded him in that role. He was a member of a prominent Manx family with deep roots in the Island's political life.
John Murray served as an agent for the Atholl family on the Isle of Man, managing the ducal interests and estates during the period surrounding the Revestment of 1765.
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl (1729-1774), became Lord of Mann through his wife Charlotte, daughter of the 2nd Duke. He was the nominal holder of the lordship at the time of the Revestment in 1765, receiving the £70,000 compensation from the Crown, though he and his wife retained certain manorial rights and revenues that became the subject of prolonged further negotiations.
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (1755-1830), continued the Atholl family's protracted campaign for additional compensation from the Crown for the residual rights retained after the 1765 Revestment. He was an unpopular figure on the Island due to his attempts to recover ducal privileges, and the final settlement of the Atholl claims was reached in 1828.
John Quayle was a Manx political figure. The Quayle family was one of the most prominent on the Isle of Man, with members serving in the House of Keys and holding various public offices over several centuries.
John Sayle was a Manx emigrant who settled in Ohio during the nineteenth century, forming part of the significant wave of Manx emigration to the American Midwest, where communities of Manx settlers were established in the mining and industrial regions.
John Sayle was a fisherman from Ramsey on the Isle of Man whose boat was illegally seized in Ramsey Bay in November 1765, six months after the Revestment. He petitioned for its return alongside John Kneene and John Wattleworth.
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), served as Lord Chancellor of England. His connection to the Isle of Man relates to his involvement in the legal and parliamentary affairs concerning the Island's governance during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
John Stevenson of Balladoole (c. 1655-1737) was a Manx politician who served as Speaker of the House of Keys and was one of the commissioners who negotiated the Act of Settlement of 1704 with the Earl of Derby. This Act secured the land tenure rights of the Manx people and is sometimes called the Manx Magna Carta. Bishop Wilson styled him "The Father of his Country."
