The slow rebuilding. The House of Keys Election Act of 1866 gave Manx people the right to elect their own representatives for the first time. Women's suffrage followed in 1881 — decades before Westminster. Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh was founded in 1899 to preserve the Manx language. A.W. Moore documented the folklore, the music, the history before it was lost. But the language was dying. Ned Maddrell, the last native speaker, died in 1974. Crown dependence remained the living condition.