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.