James McCrone, the Duke of Atholl's chief tithe proctor on the Isle of Man.

Emigrants remembered him as a hard and unsympathetic man. Thomas Kelly, writing home from Ohio in 1827 in a letter printed in the Manx Sun the following March, named him among the people the Manx emigrants were glad to have left behind them.

He was prosecuted for perjury and acquitted. Robert Cunninghame, Resident Attorney-General of the Isle of Man, preferred an information against him, and the trial came on before the Honourable Thomas Gawne, His Majesty's First Deemster, on Thursday 7 September 1820, continuing by adjournment to the evening of Saturday the 9th. McCrone was honourably acquitted. A full report was printed, taken from the records of the several proceedings and containing the evidence.