John Frissell, High Bailiff, member of the House of Keys and one-time Attorney-General of the Isle of Man.

He had held the Attorney-Generalship under the Duke of Atholl and resigned it with a view of going into the army. In May 1774 he memorialised for the appointment again, this time from the Crown, the office being the one commonly called Attorney-General but formally that of solicitor for the Crown in the Isle of Man.

He sat in the Keys through the Revestment and after it. His name is on the resolution of the House at Castletown on 21 March 1765 appointing commissioners to act for the good of the people and inhabitants so far as was consistent with the welfare and prosperity of the community, and he signed the Acts promulgated at Tynwald from the 1740s onward.

As High Bailiff he put his name first to a petition to the public of the Isle, praying aid and assistance for the erection of a bridge over the river of Ballure at the highway, which would conduce to the safety of all who might have occasion to travel that way. Twenty other subscribers followed him.

He was a captain in the Island's own forces, in the first battalion of the Manx Volunteers before 1802, under Lieutenant-Governor Alexander Shaw as Major Commandant.

The family went into the navy. His son John, by Elizabeth daughter of Captain John Llewellyn, was a lieutenant wounded in the battle of the first of June 1794, and afterwards married a French marchioness and settled in France. Two more sons, Charles and William, were also in the navy.