Charles III (b. 1948) is the current King of the United Kingdom and Lord of Mann, having acceded to the throne in 2022 upon the death of his mother, Elizabeth II. He has visited the Isle of Man on several occasions, including in his earlier role as Prince of Wales.

James I (1566-1625) was King of England and Scotland from 1603 to 1625. During his reign, the lordship of Mann continued under the Stanley family, Earls of Derby, and the Island was affected by the broader political and religious tensions of the early Stuart period.

John (1166-1216), King of England from 1199 to 1216, and the first English king to take the King of Mann under his protection. The instrument survives among the Manx national documents. In 1205 the King declared to all that he had taken his beloved kinsman Reginald, King of Mann, under his keeping, protection and defence, together with all his lands and people, and forbade any person to trouble them. There was a price on both sides. Reginald, the fifth of the Norse line and reckoned a usurper by the Manx chroniclers, agreed to do homage to John for the Isle of Man and the out Isles, and by John's charter he was to receive a knight's fee of two tuns of wine and a hundred and twenty quarters of corn yearly out of Ireland. The kings of that race had until then been held to take their sovereignty from the kings of Norway, to whom they owed homage, so the arrangement of 1205 marks the point at which an English claim was formally admitted. Reginald went further in the same direction and took the Pope for his lord as well. In 1219, following the example of his protector King John, he became the vassal of the Roman Church, engaging to hold his kingdom of it for an annual payment of twelve marks sterling, and the kingdom of Man thereby became a dependency of the Papacy. Manx writers set the two acts side by side, and note that it was Edward I who broke John's papal yoke of tribute from England's neck, while the reversal of the same process in the Island was left to the greatest of the insular kings of the house of Stanley.

Olave, third son of Godred Crovan, King of Mann and the Isles, who reigned some forty years and died in 1153. He came to the throne after his brothers. The Chronicle of Man records that Godred Crovan died in Islay leaving three sons, Lagman, Harald and Olave, and the succession lists of the Island give Olave as the third son of Godred, followed by Godred his own son, then Reginald the natural son of Godred, then Olave the lawful son, then Harald son of Olave, then Reginald II and Magnus II his brothers, and after them Alexander King of Scots. The Chronicle credits him with keeping peace through his long reign, and his son Godred II succeeded him.

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was a German-born artist associated with the Dada and Merz movements. He fled Nazi Germany in 1937 and, after the outbreak of the Second World War, was interned on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien, at Hutchinson Square camp in Douglas. During his internment, he continued to produce art and gave lectures to fellow internees, and his time on the Island forms a notable chapter in the history of wartime internment.

Letitia Christian Tyler (1790-1842) was the first wife of John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States, and served as First Lady from 1841 until her death. She was descended from the Christian family of the Isle of Man, her ancestors having emigrated from Mann to colonial Virginia in the seventeenth century.

Lieutenant Buckle Reeves was a military officer connected to the Isle of Man.

Lieutenant Hawkes commanded HMS Maria and arrived at Douglas in August 1811. He assured the High-Bailiff, Norris Moore, that he did not intend to impress fishermen. On the night of 17 August, he broke his word, impressing fishermen and working men after what contemporary accounts describe as a hard fight, in which several men were dangerously wounded. The Admiralty initially refused to release the men, citing the "very improper conduct of the people of Douglas," before eventually ordering their return.

Peter King, first Baron King (1669-1734), Lord Chancellor from 1725 to 1733, and the author of the one sentence about the Isle of Man that every Manx writer quotes. Bishop Thomas Wilson framed his ecclesiastical constitutions in 1703. They were confirmed in full convocation of the clergy, passed in the House of Keys, ratified by the Earl of Derby as Lord of the Isle, and published at the Tynwald Hill on 6 June 1704, which made the canons of the Manx Church part of its statute law as well. King was so much pleased with them that he said that if the ancient discipline of the Church were lost, it might be found in all its purity in the Isle of Man. The remark took on a life of its own. Cruttwell printed it in his preface to Wilson's works, and from there it passed into every account of the Manx Church. It is quoted in the Manx Society volumes, in Feltham, in Bullock, in Walpole and in Hall Caine, and it is set beside Coke's remark that the Island has such laws the like whereof are not to be found in any other place. Train turned it against Wilson, using it to argue that the Bishop had been unduly severe, and altered the word purity in doing so, which his critics have not let pass. Hall Caine gives the word as force rather than purity and dates the saying to 1703. Keble observed that its date is nowhere actually given. Not every Manx writer took it as a compliment. Walpole, having described the officers of the consistory courts who gathered the tithes and were required to stand at the church doors during divine service on Sundays and whip away the dogs, remarked that it might charitably be hoped that Lord Chancellor King had only a superficial acquaintance with the discipline he was pleased to commend.

Robert Nugent, Lord Clare, First Lord of the Board of Trade when the Manx case was brought to London after the Revestment. George Moore came over on behalf of the Island and found him unhelpful. Clare was suspicious of the proposals attached to the Memorial, and when Moore set out the sufferings that had followed the stopping of the trade, the flight of the young people to other lands and the deserted dwellings of the towns, Clare answered with contempt, calling the inhabitants of the former trading towns a nest of vermin collected from the dregs of the neighbouring countries. In the Commons he was a fixture of the American debates. He held that the speech from the throne was orthodox and ought not to be questioned, and was sorry to find even a single negative voice against continuing the tax, though he was willing to see the House go into committee once he found there was dissension. He handled the Irish side of the argument in the same manner, complimenting Richard Rigby, jocularly, on the popularity and reverence in which the whole Irish nation held him. Answering a speech on the famine and the beggary of the American colonists he declined to enter the lists, saying he had in his hand a friend who was a match for the argument, his old friend Sir Joshua Gee. He was not only a partisan. In the debates on the relief of the Dissenters he compared England with France in the matter of religious penalties left to lie dormant, and in 1773 he told the committee on the poor laws that the distresses of the poor had become so urgent as to make an attempt at a remedy absolutely necessary, having made a minute enquiry in Essex and found a labourer there with six or seven children.

Lord Chief Justice of England, whose opinion was relied on in the settlement of the Duke of Atholl's Manx claims. The Manx connection is partly one of family. Mary, daughter of John and Bridget Senhouse, married Edward Law, Bishop of Carlisle, and among their children was the son who became Lord Ellenborough. The same Senhouse line runs into the Island: John Senhouse the High Sheriff died in 1767 and was succeeded by his son John, who in 1775 married Margaret, daughter of John Taubman of Castletown. His part in the Atholl business is recorded in the Home Office papers. Colonel Wilks, writing on the Duke's projects, refers to the arrangement for assigning to the Duke a portion of the public revenue and to Ellenborough's position on it, and elsewhere notes that on the customs questions in which the Duke had become interested by the Act, the opinion of Lord Sidmouth is stated to have concurred pretty nearly with that of Lord Ellenborough. In England he sat through the great set-pieces of the Regency years. He put questions to the witnesses in the proceedings against Queen Caroline, moved the second reading of the Marriage Act Amendment Bill in 1820, argued that a petition from a princess was to be treated exactly as one from the lowest subject in the kingdom, and objected in committee to the word engine as too general in a bill about the protection of game. The statute that bears his name, Lord Ellenborough's Act, is cited in the Commons on capital convictions for wounding.

Thomas Fairfax, third Baron Fairfax of Cameron (1612-1671), commander of the New Model Army, and Lord of Mann after the surrender of the Island in 1651. He took possession through commissioners rather than in person. The conquest complete, he asserted his right under the Act of Parliament and appointed James Chaloner, William Steane and John Rushworth to enquire into his estate in the Island and its yearly value. On 4 December 1651 they deputed Captains Eaton and Beale to make the enquiries and to notify the tenants of his right. On 17 August 1652 he named commissioners for the government of the Isle: Chaloner, Robert Dynely, and Joshua Witton, minister of the gospel. Early in the following year the Council of State took up the condition of the Island as to its civil government and its security against an enemy, conferred with Chaloner, and was told of Fairfax's intention of sending over a Governor and other well-affected persons. He appointed William Christian, Illiam Dhone, Governor in 1656, the only Manx-born man ever to hold that office, and Chaloner succeeded Christian in 1658. He is the dedicatee of the first good book about the Island. Chaloner's Short Treatise of the Isle of Man is inscribed to His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, Lord of Man and of the Isles, and the arms of the Island and of Lord Fairfax are engraved on the plates with the map. He held the Lordship for eight years. By his wife Anne he had an only daughter, who married George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, a match that displeased the Protector: the Royalist sympathies of the girl's mother were well known, and it was thought a grave matter that the daughter should ally herself with a nobleman of one of the largest rent-rolls in England. She died in 1704. Fairfax was succeeded as fourth Baron by his cousin Henry, grandson of the first Lord Fairfax, who died in 1693 aged eighty-six without issue.

Lord John Murray, brother of James, second Duke of Atholl, who came over with him when he took possession of the Island. The account of the Duke's entry into Man in 1736, taken from a manuscript that belonged to the Stevensons of Balladoole, names the company. The Duke was accompanied by Lord John Murray his brother, Sir Patrick Murray of Balmanno, John Murray Esquire the Principal Clerk of Sessions, Patrick Lindsay member for Edinburgh, and Major Stevenson of the fourth troop of Guards, son to John Stevenson the Speaker of the Keys. Lord John and his company reached the Island on the Saturday morning, 19 June, the day the Twenty-Four Keys waited on the Duke with their address as representatives of the people, and the Duke went on attended by them and by many others. He was a soldier by profession, and his regiment appears among those listed in the army accounts laid before the Commons.

Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878), served twice as Prime Minister. His connection to the Isle of Man relates to his involvement in the governance and constitutional development of the Island during the mid-nineteenth century.

Thomas Hay, Lord Kinnoull, formerly Lord Dupplin, who wrote to the Duke of Atholl on the conclusion of the Revestment. His letter is dated from Dupplin on 9 March 1765. Mr Mackenzie had already told him of what he called the happy conclusion of the Duke's troublesome and interesting business, and he wrote to congratulate the Duke and Duchess. He could form no judgement, he said, how far the compensation was adequate to the loss the Duke would suffer in his income, but it was his clear opinion that all circumstances considered the agreement was one it had been proper, wise and prudent to accede to, for the benefit of the family as well as for the Duke's own ease and security. He put the success in an arduous and delicate transaction down to the Duke's firmness, moderation and spirit, and thought the hard and severe trials he had undergone since coming into his honours and estate had gained him credit as well as experience. In the same letter he reported that no performance at the Bar of the House of Commons had been spoken of with such universal and high applause as Mr Cooper's since Lord Mansfield left that Bar. He was a Treasury politician of the Newcastle connection. He succeeded his father in July 1758 and had been on an embassy to Portugal. Newcastle thought him indispensable and told him in September 1760 that he could do nothing well in a new Parliament without him, though the world at large, as Namier records, held him opprobriously and injuriously to be an absolute fool. He resigned the Chancellorship of the Duchy in anger when the Duke of Devonshire's name was struck out of the Privy Council in November 1762, and when Newcastle went into opposition he withdrew from politics altogether.

Lord Chief Justice, trustee of the Atholl settlement of the Isle of Man, and the man whose advice fixed the price at the Revestment. His Manx involvement began long before the sale. By the indenture of feoffment of 14 November 1737, Duke James granted and confirmed the Island and lordship of Man to John, Earl of Dunmore, the Honourable William Murray, afterwards Lord Mansfield, and John Murray, on trusts reserved to the Duke to revoke. He was therefore a trustee of the estate he later helped to sell, and a kinsman of the sellers. When the Duke and Duchess of Atholl came to terms with the Crown in 1765, they named seventy thousand pounds. Their own account, given to Parliament long afterwards, was that they named that figure because they understood from Lord Mansfield, their mutual friend, that no more would be given if they asked it, and that even then they would not have signed the contract had they not been promised the pension of two thousand a year as part of the bargain. The Duke's letter to Mansfield asking his advice enclosed a detailed estimate putting the family's losses at six hundred and twenty thousand pounds. That gap between the estimate and the price is the arithmetic on which the Atholl claims of 1791, 1805 and 1825 all rested. In England he is the Mansfield of the general warrants and the law of libel. He confirmed Pratt's decision that general warrants were illegal. His doctrine that a jury had nothing to do with whether a paper was a libel was attacked by Fox in the Commons in 1791, who allowed that no man would dispute his integrity as a judge while holding that he had got into a position there was no defending. Wilkes, in exile, believed Mansfield would pass a terrible sentence on him.

Frederick North, Lord North (1732-1792), Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782, whose government administered the Isle of Man through the first two decades after the Revestment. The Island's business came to him as routine departmental work. Governor Edward Smith wrote to him in October 1783 asking for leave of absence, for a chapel in Castle Rushen for the use of the troops barracked within it, and for a royal portrait. Under the arrangement by which Smith and his Lieutenant-Governor held their offices, one of the two had to be resident on the Island, and North accordingly told Smith that he must relieve Dawson. Smith was by then already showing the signs of the illness that brought his resignation seven years later. On the questions that touched the Island's trade he was a protectionist. When the importation of cotton into Ireland was proposed he spoke against it, following Sir Thomas Egerton, who had told the House that if it were once permitted there would be an end to the prosperity of England and the people of Manchester in particular would be completely ruined. Burke tried to show the folly of the apprehension, and failed to carry a committee. Later speakers used his administration as a byword. They cited it for the seventy thousand stand of arms sent to Ireland which were afterwards used in rebellion, for a beer tax that allowed a deduction to the public brewer, and for the Shoreham franchise measure said to have been extorted from the weakness of his government and passed by small majorities in small houses.

Merged. Lord Strange was the courtesy title borne by the eldest sons of the Stanley Earls of Derby, who were Lords of Mann. The holder bound up with the Island is James Stanley, who governed it as Lord Strange from 1628 and came to the earldom in 1642, and the account is now held under his own item, James Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby. See that item.

Lieutenant-Governor and Chancellor of the Isle of Man through the inquiry of 1791 and 1792. He took the oath at Castle Rushen on 7 January 1791, swearing to deal truly and uprightly between the King and his subjects within the Isle, and as indifferently between party and party as the staff of office then stood. His appointment allowed the resignation of Richard Dawson, who had been Lieutenant-Governor under Governor Smith, to be accepted that year. The Commissioners of Inquiry worked through him. Their requisitions for information came to the House of Keys by way of the Lieutenant-Governor, and the Keys resolved that their answers should go back by the Speaker to him, to be laid before the Commissioners. His own letters are printed among the Commissioners' papers alongside those of Deemster Moore, the Attorney-General Sir Wadsworth Busk, the Clerk of the Rolls and the Speaker of the Keys. One of them is a character reference, describing its subject as a gentleman of honour, of integrity and respectable talents, a lawyer by profession and among the first as well as the seniors of the bar. Thomas Stowell inscribed his Statutes and Ordinances of the Isle of Man of 1792 to him as Lieutenant-Governor and Chancellor. He was still in office in 1793, when an Act of Tynwald which had received the royal assent, signified in a letter directed to him of 22 June, was promulgated on the Tynwald Hill on 22 July, and he signed the attestation after the Duke of Atholl. Later lists give the government of 1798 as the Duke of Atholl and Alexander Shaw jointly.

Richard Dawson, Lieutenant-Governor and Chancellor of the Isle of Man through the 1770s and 1780s. He ran the Island in fact. Edward Smith was Governor in Chief but lived in London and came over only occasionally, so the resident authority was Dawson's, and the correspondence of the period is addressed to him. He was still Lieutenant-Governor in October 1791, when the Duke of Atholl wrote to the Commissioners of Inquiry from Douglas. The record shows him in the ordinary business of the office. In 1780 the report on a Bill to amend the Act touching the Duke of Atholl's courts and powers was addressed to him as His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor and signed by John Quayle, Thomas Moore and Wadsworth Busk on 27 April, with further remarks the following February. He sat as Chancellor in the Exchequer Court, and the information laid by the Attorney-General Sir Wadsworth Busk against Deemster Peter John Heywood in June 1786 was heard before him. When a ship was wrecked and the port officers judged that they could not keep the goods from being plundered, it was to Dawson that they went, asking for a corporal's guard of Fencibles. When the Keys wanted to counter what they called a factious petition, their memorial of loyalty was addressed to him. The Lords of the Treasury directed him to report on the old harbour-debt memorials, and the memorialists afterwards said that he had done it in a fair and impartial way. He got on with the men he dealt with. When George Moore resigned the Speakership of the Keys, Dawson wrote to him with warm expressions of friendship and esteem, telling him that his resignation went to his heart, and that it gave him inconceivable sorrow to lose him as Speaker. He complained, like everyone else, about the money. The arrears in paying the civil officers were a constant refrain after the Revestment, and his own salary was among those unpaid.

Last king of the Norse line in Mann, son of Olave the Black, who reigned from 1252 until his death at Castle Rushen. Speed's account gives the two ends of the reign plainly. In 1252 Magnus, the son of Olave, came to Man and was made king, and in the following year he went to the King of Norway and stayed there a year. He had a safe conduct from the King of England in 1253, as heir of Mann and of the Islands, for himself and his family to pass through the King's possessions towards Norway and to return. His title was contested even in the record. The Chronicle described his brother Reginald as the last of the race, which the Manx Society editor called a manifest error, adding that Magnus succeeded him and was king de facto if not de jure. The numbering of the dynasty varies with the source: one list makes him the ninth of the race of Godred Crovan, another the tenth, and a third counts twelve kings in all. Two charters survive from the middle of the reign. In 1256, styling himself by the grace of God King of Mann and the Islands, he granted to the prior and convent of Conishead for the salvation of the souls of all his kindred, dating the deed at the abbey of Furness. In 1257 he granted to Richard, Bishop of Mann and the Isles, the charter which constituted the bishopric a feudal barony. The editor of the Manx statutes was sharp about what that meant in practice: the bishop obtained more than the privileges of a feudal prince and none of the responsibilities, and the king kept the whole expense and burden of defending the Island. The manuscript date of 1329 on the charter is an error, and the grant is more probably of 1257, when Richard dedicated the church of St Mary of Rushen. He died in 1265 at Castle Rushen and was buried in the abbey church he had lately caused to be dedicated, leaving no child. One account has him back at Castle Rushen during the negotiations which ended in the Treaty of Perth, given no consideration by either party to them, and dying in disgust. The treaty itself, concluded at Perth in 1266 between Magnus IV of Norway and Alexander III of Scotland, is a different Magnus, and by it the Isles were surrendered to the Scots for four thousand marks in four years and a hundred marks yearly thereafter, payable in Orkney in the church of St Magnus. The consequences ran on for forty years. In 1290 the men of the Isle of Man petitioned Edward I for his protection, describing their Island as lately laid desolate and oppressed with many enemies after the death of Magnus their king and the forcible transfer of their country to Scotland, and they attached their common seal to it. In 1293 Aufrica, calling herself kinswoman and heiress of Magnus, obtained a citation of the King of Scotland to answer her appeal in England. She made over her right to her husband Sir Simon de Montacute in 1306. His charter to Bishop Richard was confirmed by Thomas Randolph as Scottish Lord of Man, and again by Sir John Stanley on 11 July 1423.

Major Dawson was an official connected to the governance of the Isle of Man in the post-Revestment period. Bishop Richmond reported in 1776 that Dawson had directed the twenty-four Keys regarding legislation, indicating his influence over the Island's parliamentary affairs during the period when Tynwald was reasserting itself after the years of silence following the Revestment.

Major John Taubman of the Nunnery, Speaker of the House of Keys. The Nunnery came to the family in his time. Peter John Heywood, one of the Deemsters of the Island, conveyed the Nunnery estate near Douglas in 1777 to John Taubman of Castletown, Esquire, and it stayed in the family long afterwards. The Manx Society's lists of the 1860s still give J. S. Goldie Taubman of the Nunnery, by then Speaker of the House of Keys in his turn. His rank came from the Island's own forces. He walks through the records of Tynwald as Major Taubman, sword-bearer, placed in the procession after the two Deemsters and immediately before the Duke of Atholl, ahead of the Lieutenant-Governor, the Clerk of the Rolls and the twenty-four Keys. In the war years he and the Lieutenant-Governor pressed the Home Office to have the commission for the Fencibles dated from 24 August 1798, and in March 1796 he added another hundred pounds to the Island's contribution to the war. He went into banking. In 1802 he joined George Quayle, Quayle's brother Mark Hildesley Quayle, and James Kelly in opening the Isle of Mann Bank at Castletown. He was Speaker when the House lost its home. On 16 October 1817 the members inspected their own building, resolved unanimously that it was not only unfit but imminently unsafe for holding their meetings, and adjourned forthwith to the George Inn in Castletown. The further resolution appointing a deputation to find them a place of meeting was signed by him as Speaker.

English political economist whose dictionary of trade carried an early published account of Manx smuggling. His Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce of 1755 included an article on smuggling in relation to the Isle of Man. It opened by stating that the Island was, and had been for many years, a common storehouse for all manner of goods and merchandise which paid high duties in Great Britain or Ireland, or were prohibited into those kingdoms. The passage is one of the reactions to the running trade that later Manx compilers cite for the state of things in 1755, a decade before the Revestment. The Journal of the Manx Museum indexes him separately on the commerce of Douglas. He wrote a great deal else. Britain's Commercial Interest Explained and Improved appeared in 1757, and Great Britain's True System argued that increasing public debts and taxes would in a few years ruin the monied, trading and landed interests alike.

Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509), mother of Henry VII, and by her marriage to Thomas Stanley, first Earl of Derby, Countess of Richmond and Derby. Her Manx significance is her husband's. The Island was his, and the Manx writers who mention her do so in passing, as the mother whose son's crown followed from Richard III's designs on the Stanleys. The standard nineteenth-century life of her, Caroline Halstead's of 1839, mentions the Island only casually, at three pages of the whole book, and the Manx bibliographers note the fact when they list it.