Edmund Hoskins of Lincoln's Inn, one of the two trustees in whose names the Isle of Man was bought for the Crown.

He came into the business as a replacement. Archibald, Duke of Argyll, and John Sharpe had both been trustees of the Atholl settlement and both had died, and Viscount Stormont, with the privity and approbation of James, Duke of Atholl, nominated Sir Charles Frederick and Hoskins to supply their places in the execution of the trusts. The deeds name him as Edmund Hoskins of Lincoln's Inn in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, party of the fifth part with Frederick, in an instrument to which Duke James, Viscount Stormont, the new Duke John, John Wood as Governor and Commander in Chief of the Isle, and George, Earl of Aberdeen, were the other parties.

The mechanics of the transfer ran through his name. Duke James and Viscount Stormont granted the territory of Man to John Wood, the Governor, his heirs and assigns, to the intent that he should re-enfeoff it to Stormont, Frederick and Hoskins as the new trustees, and by a deed poll of 8 July 1762 Wood did so. Duke James reserved a power of revocation.

Then came the sale. The contract of 7 March 1765 was made between four of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury on the one part and the Duke and Duchess of Atholl with Sir Charles Frederick and Edmund Hoskins, their trustees, on the other, for the absolute purchase of the Island with its dependencies. It provided that upon payment by the King into the Bank of England of seventy thousand pounds, in the names of the Duke and Duchess, Frederick and Hoskins, or the survivors or survivor of them, free and clear of all taxes, impositions, fees and other deductions, on or before 1 June 1765, the Isle of Man should vest unalienably in the Crown, and that the cashier's receipt should be a sufficient discharge to His Majesty.