Manx captain and merchant whose conflict with the new Crown revenue establishment illustrates the immediate tensions after Revestment.

In February 1766 Charles Lutwidge, Receiver-General and Water-Bailiff, presented a formal complaint against Parr. Lutwidge alleged that Parr had publicly called him a notorious smuggler and accused him of carrying wine and silk ashore in England.

The same petition accused Parr of threatening Barnes, one of the Crown customs officers, saying that if Barnes attempted to seize any boat belonging to him he would “put a brace of Balls through” the officer’s head. Lutwidge also alleged that Parr had insulted and obstructed other customs officers carrying out their duties.

The complaint was ordered to be heard at Castle Rushen. Hearings were fixed first for 22 February and then continued to 1 March 1766.

Parr died shortly afterwards. Feltham’s later Tour through the Isle of Man records a memorial to Captain Caesar Parr and states that he was buried on 20 February 1766, aged twenty-nine.

The surviving material therefore places Parr within the first months of Crown customs enforcement, when officers appointed after Revestment were attempting to suppress practices connected with the former running trade.