William Cubbon, who argued for a Manx museum before there was one.

Writing to The Manx Note Book in the middle 1880s he set out what he thought still wanted doing. There was work of a national character to be accomplished by a society formed on the same lines as the Manx Society: the preservation of national antiquities, the establishment of a museum, and the preservation of the Island's national institutions. The editor added his own hope that the Manx Society would go on adding to its volumes, having funds in hand and much good work still to do, and named the Manorial Rolls of 1511 and 1515 as the next thing wanted.

By the next generation he was the man that Manx collectors and emigrants wrote to. At Easter 1913 J. R. Moore, who had gone from Lonan to New Zealand, wrote to Cubbon about the Manx books reaching him from Miss Morrison of Peel, among them J. J. Kneen's Direct Method and Edward Faragher's Aesop's Fables, and about Dr Clague's Reminiscences, in which he said he was greatly disappointed, having expected something racier.