Pope Pius II (1405-1464), in whose pontificate Laurentius was made Bishop of Sodor and Man. The Manx tables of the bishops are laid out to be read across: the bishop's name, the year, the English king of the day, the archbishop, and the reigning pope. Laurentius stands thirty-fourth in that succession, at 1461, under Edward IV, with Pius II in the papal column. He follows Alexander Rawlinson, who had the see from 1445, and precedes Thomas Chambers, who had it from 1491 under Innocent VIII. That is the whole of the Island's business with him in these sources. By that date the patronage of the bishopric had long gone with the lordship of Mann, having been granted with the Island itself, so the popes appear in the Manx lists as a means of dating a bishop's accession rather than as parties to his appointment.

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861), consort of Queen Victoria. His one direct connection with the Island is the visit of September 1847. The royal yacht lay in Ramsey Bay and the Queen did not land, but the Prince Consort came ashore and ascended the hill overlooking the town and the bay on 20 September. The Albert Tower was afterwards built on that spot to commemorate the royal visit, and it is how the occasion is remembered at Ramsey. He lent his name to antiquarian work of the kind that produced much of the surrounding record. He was patron of the Irish Archaeological Society, founded in 1840, whose editions of the Irish genealogies, tribes and customs are among the comparative sources used for the Norse and Gaelic centuries of Manx history.

Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-1682) was the nephew of Charles I and commander of Royalist cavalry during the English Civil War. In May 1644, he led the force that stormed Bolton alongside James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby. His army then relieved Charlotte de la Trémouille's garrison at Lathom House, ending the first Parliamentary siege. Two months later, at Marston Moor, Rupert's defeat ended Royalist control of northern England and left the Stanley cause in Lancashire fatally exposed.

Anne, Princess Royal (b. 1950), is the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and has visited the Isle of Man on several occasions in her capacity as a member of the Royal Family, attending events and engagements on the Island.

Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603, whose Lord of Mann was one of her Garter knights. Henry Stanley, fourth Earl of Derby and seventh Lord of Man of that house, succeeded his father in 1572. The Queen made him a Knight of the Garter, and he was at the head of the commission she sent into Flanders to treat of a peace with the Prince of Parma on behalf of the King of Spain. The Island was held by his family throughout her reign, by homage and by the service of rendering two falcons to the sovereign at each coronation, together with the patronage of the bishopric and all the ecclesiastical benefices, as fully as any of the former lords or kings of Man had held them. The Stanley succession broke open at the end of her reign. Earl Ferdinando left three daughters, Anne who married Grey Bruges, Lord Chandos, Frances who married Sir John Egerton, afterwards Earl of Bridgewater, and Elizabeth who married Henry, Lord Hastings, and the dispute between them and their uncle William ran on past the Queen's death into the reign that followed.

Queen Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Lord of Mann from 1837 to 1901. She succeeded her uncle William IV on 20 June 1837, and the Manx chronicle records her as Queen of Great Britain, Ireland, Man and so forth, the Island named separately from the two kingdoms. On 21 June she issued a proclamation for persons in office to proceed with the execution of their offices, in the same form as the proclamations of previous reigns. Her name is attached to the legislation of the Island's most reforming century. An Act of 1844, cited in the Manx manner as 8th Victoria, amended the law on the executors of spiritual men, so that the representatives of a deceased incumbent became entitled to an executor's crop out of the glebe lands, or, where the glebe was let, to the rent up to the day of the death. An Act of Tynwald of the twenty-fourth year of her reign provided for disafforesting and allotting the uninclosed portion of the Forest, and the commissioners appointed under it printed their declaration of the boundaries in 1861. The royal visit of 1847 is often described loosely. The royal yacht lay in Ramsey Bay, but the Queen herself did not land. It was the Prince Consort who came ashore and climbed the hill overlooking the town and bay, on 20 September, and the Albert Tower was afterwards built on that spot to mark the visit. Her reign saw the growth of tourism, the reform of the House of Keys and the development of the Island's infrastructure.

Charles Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk (12 July 1920 - 20 December 2017), was born at Lambfell farm near Kirk Michael and educated at Douglas High School before a distinguished academic career in English linguistics. He founded the Survey of English Usage at University College London in 1959, held the Quain Professorship of English there from 1968 to 1981, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1981 to 1985; his co-authored A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985) remains a standard reference work. He was knighted in 1985 and created a life peer in 1994.

George Rayner Hoff (27 November 1894 - 19 November 1937) was born in the parish of Braddan, the son of an English-born wood and stone carver, before his family relocated to Nottingham during his childhood. After studying at the Royal College of Art and winning the British Prix de Rome in 1922, he emigrated to Australia, where his World War One trench experience shaped his acclaimed Art Deco war memorial sculpture, including the ANZAC War Memorial figures in Sydney's Hyde Park (1931-34) and the King George V Memorial in Canberra.

The Rev. Paul Crebbin, Vicar of Kirk Santan, and one of Bishop Hildesley's translators. He held the parish for thirty-three years, from about 1731, and died on 26 August 1764 aged fifty-nine. The register that records his burial records two of his children before him: Paul, buried on 2 October 1735 at the age of two, and Catharine, buried on 2 April 1758 at sixteen. His name survives with the books. When Bishop Hildesley set the Manx clergy to putting the scriptures and the standard devotional works into Manx, the division of the work was recorded parish by parish: Lewis's Catechism fell to the Rev. Henry Corlett, and the Christian Monitor to Crebbin. His translation was printed in Manx and English at London in 1763, and Hildesley's memoirs note that this first edition was very eagerly received by the grateful natives. He was among the working clergy of the diocese in the ordinary way. He signed the clergy's address to Bishop Hildesley as Vicar of Kirk Santan, with Archdeacon William Mylrea, the Vicars-General Robert Radcliffe and Matthias Curghey, and Philip Moore, chaplain of Douglas. He signed the clergy's address to James, Duke of Atholl, Lord of Man and the Isles, in the same character. The Rev. Charles Crebbin, vicar of the same parish from 1769, and William Crebbin, vicar of Jurby, belong to the same connection.

Manx clergyman, Vicar-General and translator associated with the eighteenth-century Manx Bible project. Wilks served as Rector of Ballaugh and held the offices of Vicar-General and Episcopal Registrar. A later account records his appointment as Vicar-General and Registrar on 16 September 1771. He took part in the translation and revision of the Scriptures into Manx during Bishop Mark Hildesley’s episcopate. Matthias Curghey revised the Pentateuch with Philip Moore and Wilks, while the Gospels and Acts were worked on in association with Wilks. Contemporary and later church records repeatedly place the three men together in the translation project. Wilks also participated directly in the political aftermath of Revestment. In April 1766 George Moore and Thomas Moore travelled to London on behalf of the Keys, accompanied by Wilks, who was tasked with documentary research. The surviving account states that he obtained a copy of a charter of James I confirming Manx rights and privileges, described there as having been “until then forgot and unknown”. He remained active in ecclesiastical government. Records of Bishop Hildesley’s period show Wilks among the Vicars-General subscribing Manx laws up to 1765. Wilks died in 1777. Feltham’s later tour records his burial on 1 June, aged fifty-eight, in the churchyard of the parish where he had served as rector.

The Reverend Mr Gell was a clergyman connected to the Isle of Man.

Richard Betham, LL.D., Collector of Customs at Douglas, and the first English customs officer to take charge of the Manx customs. His appointment was the one exception the government made. On completing the purchase of the Island in 1765 it agreed, at the Duke of Atholl's requisition, to retain every officer of the Duke's appointment except the Collector of the Customs, and that office was conferred on Betham. He was sworn in as Water Bailiff at the same period, appearing with Charles Lutwidge before Governor John Wood in 1765 to take the oath of office, and his signature as Water Bailiff stands at Castle Rushen on 28 May 1770 beside those of John Quayle the Clerk of the Rolls, the Attorney-General Charles Searle, and the Deemsters Peter John Heywood and Daniel Mylrea. He lived at the Hague, near Douglas. David Robertson, writing his tour of the Island shortly after Betham's death, called him a gentleman whose erudition was truly respectable, and to whose politeness and friendship he was highly indebted. He was well connected outside the Island as well. His wife Mary was the sister of Duncan Campbell, the London shipowner in the West India trade. His health failed at the end of the 1780s. In May 1789 Hugh Cosnahan, writing to the Duke's agent about the chances of office on the Island, observed that the present collector was not well and in a declining state, and that if he should be shortly called away there would be no want of applications to succeed him. Betham died that year. His daughter carried the family into a famous story. Elizabeth Betham, whose baptism is recorded at Glasgow on 7 March 1754, married Captain William Bligh at Kirk Onchan on 4 February 1781.

Richard Christian, whose passage to Virginia was claimed as a headright. The Virginia land patents were granted in return for transporting settlers, fifty acres for each person brought in, and the patents list the people by name. Richard Christian's name stands in one such list, among some scores of others carried on the same account, so that his arrival in the colony is recorded not for his own sake but as part of another man's title to land. The Manx Christians who went to Virginia are documented from a little later. In 1655 two brothers, William and Jonathan Christian of Maughold, went out, and a family of Cottiers from Lezayre went at the same time, the two families afterwards intermarrying. The Christians acquired considerable tracts of land in Virginia and their descendants came to be possessed of an ample fortune.

Richard III (1452-1485), last Plantagenet King of England, remembered in the Stanley tradition as the king who nearly had them killed. The Manx sources approach him through the family that held the Island. A writer looking back on his reign from a safer one sets down the contrast: there was no fear of tyranny and cruelty under the government he was then living in, as there had been in the time of Richard III, when Thomas, Earl of Derby, came near to being murdered by that king's direction, and his son the Lord Strange was in danger of the like. It was for those and such like feats, the writer adds, that Henry VII, whose mother Thomas had married, got his crown so early. The Stanleys were already Lords of Mann when Bosworth was fought, and their intervention there confirmed and enlarged what they held.

Richard Tyldesley, Comptroller and Clerk of the Rolls of the Isle of Man in the 1660s and 1670s. He was one of the officers who conducted the prosecution of Illiam Dhone. The examinations in the case were taken before him with Richard Stevenson, Henry Nowell, the Deemsters John Christian and Thomas Norris, Hugh Cannell, the Calcotts, the Huddlestons and Robert Quayle, and his name is among the officers attending at Castle Rushen in October 1662. He was still in place a decade later, and his office survived a difficulty. Lord Charles died about Christmas 1672, and by his death the commissions of all the Island's officers determined and utterly ceased, and with them their authority to act. Henry Nowell was then Deputy-Governor, Richard Stevenson the late Receiver-General and assistant to the courts, Thomas Norris and Edward Christian the Deemsters, Tyldesley Comptroller and Clerk of the Rolls, and William Qualtrough Attorney-General. A court was nevertheless held, and the Manx lawyers afterwards drew from that the conclusion that by the common law of the Island the officers continued in their places on any change of sovereignty until superseded by the new Lord, or until the new Lord's will was known. He married into the Manx bench. His wife was Isabel, daughter of Deemster Thomas Norris. The family held the Friary, and the last of the name there was Margaret, daughter of Thomas Tyldesley of the Friary, who married at Kirk Arbory in November 1795.

Robert Christian of Cedar Grove was a member of the Christian family of Manx origin who settled in Virginia. The Cedar Grove plantation was established by the Christian family in the American colonies, representing the continued prominence of Manx emigrant families in colonial Virginia.

Douglas printer and newspaper proprietor associated with Mona’s Herald and a wide range of nineteenth-century Manx publications. The first number of Mona’s Herald appeared on 3 August 1833. The Manx Society bibliography records it as printed by William Walls of New Bond Street and Robert Fargher of Atholl Street and published from the Herald Office and General Printing Establishment in New Bond Street Lane. Fargher’s press subsequently produced political, religious and public material. In 1837 Walls and Fargher printed Sir William Hillary’s Observations on the proposed Changes in the Fiscal and Navigation Laws of the Isle of Man. By 1842 works were appearing under Robert Fargher’s name alone at the Mona’s Herald Office, including Hillary’s letter and proceedings concerning preservation of life from shipwreck and the proposed harbour of refuge at Douglas. The press also printed sermons, pamphlets and controversial material. The Manx Society bibliography lists publications from A. Fargher and Co. and Robert Fargher across the 1840s and 1850s, including religious works and Eye-Salve for the Wesleyans of Mona in 1850.

Robert Henry 'Tim' Cain (2 January 1909 - 2 May 1974) was born in Shanghai to Manx parents who returned to the Isle of Man during his childhood, and was educated at King William's College. Serving with the South Staffordshire Regiment's 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944, he fought German tanks and self-propelled guns at close range for six days despite serious wounds, and was awarded the Victoria Cross - the only Manxman ever to receive the medal. He retired to the Isle of Man in 1965, is buried at Braddan Cemetery, and is commemorated by a memorial scholarship at King William's College and an oak grown from an Arnhem acorn in the Dhoon Arboretum.

Robert Heywood (1633-1690), Governor of the Isle of Man from 1678. The family came to the Island by marriage. His father, Peter Heywood of Heywood, married before 1640 Alice, daughter of John Greenhalgh of Brandlesome, who was himself Governor of the Isle of Man, and Robert was their son and heir. His own son Peter, born on 10 June 1662, became Attorney-General of the Island and married Leonora, only daughter and heiress of Hugh Cannell, Water-Bailiff, son of John Cannell one of the Deemsters. The Heywoods were at the Nunnery for generations afterwards. He is chiefly remembered for reviving the racing. The races at Langness had been set up by the seventh Earl of Derby in 1628 and had lapsed after 1651. The entries for the plate survive for 1687, and the Governor himself is at the head of them: Robert Heywood, Esquire, Governor of this Isle, entered a bay gelding called Loggerhead and put down five shillings towards augmenting the plate for the following year. Captain Thomas Hudlston entered a white gelding called Snowball. The articles for the race, dated 14 July 1687, provided among other things that the distance pole might be ridden on either hand at the discretion of the rider. The standard legal handbook of the Island is dedicated to him. Deemster John Parr addressed his Abstract of the Laws, Customs and Ordinances to the Right Worshipful Robert Heywood, Esquire, Governor of the Isle of Mann, disclaiming any attempt at a succinct module of the whole laws and constitutions of the Isle and offering only a tithe of them, an abridgment or compendium of such laws and Acts as are of use. Parr was not made Deemster until 1693, and Heywood died in 1690, which places the writing of that book in his governorship. It was never printed in his lifetime, and has always been held a work of authority.

Colonel Robert Lilburne (1613-1665) was the Parliamentary commander who defeated James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, at the Battle of Wigan Lane on 25 August 1651. Derby had sailed from the Isle of Man days earlier with a small force to join Charles II's march into England. Lilburne's cavalry intercepted them before they could reach the King. Derby was wounded but escaped; most of his men were killed or scattered. Lilburne later served as a Parliamentary commissioner during the Interregnum and was involved in the military governance of the north of England.

Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), twice Prime Minister, and as Home Secretary the minister who handled the Island's business in the 1820s. The Manx correspondence of those years is addressed to him. Lieutenant-Governor Smelt wrote to him about the prisons, about repairs and estimates, and about the inconvenience of Acts not being promulgated early enough after the royal assent. The Duke of Atholl wrote to him from the Island and from Castle Mona, transmitting Thomas Fell's petition and putting questions about the standing of the Keys in the Court of General Gaol Delivery, which the Attorney-General thought were best referred to Peel himself. The House of Keys wrote to him in August 1822 about the Duke's behaviour and his threats to lay complaints against them before His Majesty's Ministers. Bishop Murray wrote to him in July 1825 about the expulsion of Roper, his lay Chancellor and a member of Council, from the Manx bar by the Lieutenant-Governor, and followed it with a statement of the words Roper had used in the Chancery court which the Lieutenant-Governor charged as an insult. Lord Sidmouth sent him a private reference for Mr Christian as First Deemster. Papers on the Roper business were sent to the Law Officers for their opinion on his instruction. The Atholl settlement was being wound up in the same years. One of his correspondents reported in 1826 that the treaty between the Crown and the Duke was rapidly advancing, that the Duke's acquired property was not involved, and asked whether Castle Mona might be applied to some public purpose, Government House having soon to become the gaoler's.

Merged. This man was one of the six jurors who found William Christian, Illiam Dhône, a traitor in 1662. The whole of the record concerning him is the single line of the verdict naming that jury, so the account is now held under one item, The Jury that Convicted Illiam Dhône (1662), rather than divided among six near-empty records. See that item.

Robert the Bruce (1274-1329), King of Scotland, who took Castle Rushen and brought the Isle of Man under Scottish rule. He landed at Ramsey and marched south to Castletown. Castle Rushen was held against him for six months, obstinately, by the man the Chronicle of Man calls Lord Dungawi Macdoual, that is Duncan de Ergadia or Duncan Macdougal, a nephew of the Black Comyn, and some writers ascribe the siege not to the King but to his brother Edward Bruce. When the castle fell the power of the Bruce party was established on the Island, and it held for the most part until the reconquest. He gave the Island away to his nephew. The charter of 1318 is addressed by Robert, by the grace of God King of the Scots, to all honest men of his land, clergy and laity, and confirms to Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray and Lord of Annandale, his dearest nephew, the Isle of Man to be held under him. It was witnessed at Berwick-upon-Tweed on the twentieth day of December in the nineteenth year of the reign, by the Earl of Strathearn, Hugh Earl of Ross, Walter the Steward of Scotland, James Lord of Douglas, and Gilbert de Hay the Constable. The Island changed hands more than once in those years. Sir Henry de Beaumont had been Lord of Man until 1310, and Edward II, whose Scottish rolls carry an instruction that the men of the Isle of Man be well treated, dismissed him. A band of Irish under Richard de Mandeville ravaged the Island in 1316. Alice, daughter of Alexander de Ergadia Lord of Lorn and widow of Reginald King of Man, entered a conspiracy against Bruce in 1320 and was attainted for it. The Scottish hold was ended by William Montacute the younger, Earl of Salisbury, in 1343.

Robert Wilson was an Irishman convicted of bringing counterfeit half-crowns and shillings into the Isle of Man and passing three of them. He was hanged. His case illustrated the distinction the Manx legal system drew between a local man who tested his metal and a foreigner who imported counterfeit coin for profit.