William Corris of Pullowon, one of the landed proprietors of the Island in 1791.

His name is on the memorial of the principal proprietors of lands in the Isle of Man, dated 31 October 1791 and laid before the Commissioners of Inquiry, standing among the Peel and western signatures. Michael Corris of Peel signed with him.

The Corrises were a Peel family of the sea trade. They kept a shipyard close to what is now St German's Cathedral, and they tanned nets and made leather as well, one firm serving several allied trades at once. Their boats were hauled along Atholl Street and down the Gill to be launched on the shore. Caesar Corris was the best known of them as an owner. The Manx Sun described four of his boats in July 1836, of twenty-two tons burden, carvel built, half decked and copper fastened, each carrying nineteen pieces of net of eleven hundred and fifty yards, the nets barked three times before the season opened and every second Saturday afterwards. When the old arrangement by which every man brought his own week's food gave way to a system of shares about 1835, Corris allowed sixteen shillings a week for provisions, two shillings and eightpence a man.