This fragment was found in the churchyard wall c.1890. This stone was found in the churchyard. Only the head of the memorial survives, and part of the face has flaked away. The stone itself is wheel-headed so as to reflect the outline of the sculpture, which comprises an equal-armed 'Celtic' cross set within a ring. The cross is edged with a single moulding, the ring with double bead mouldings. In the centre of the cross is carved a small ring.

The site of a modern graveyard.

The line of an old road.

The line of an old road in Lonan.

The line of an old road in Lonan.

247 names listed. First World War. The tablet was unveiled on 17 April 1921 by the Lord Bishop. It is the work of Mr R.W. Creer, Harris Terrace, Douglas and the foreman in charge was Mr Faragher, who both acted under the advice of Mr Archibald Knox. This was the second memorial to the Great War to be erected in All Saint's Church in 1921. The first plaque had been erected in January of that year.

The site of a stack yard in Lonan parish.

London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. As the seat of the British government and Parliament, it was where the decisions leading to the Revestment of 1765 were made, where the Duke of Atholl's representatives negotiated the terms of sale, and where the Purchase Act and Mischief Act were rushed through both Houses in a fortnight. The Manx went there to be heard and mostly were not. George Moore came over from Peel on the Keys' business and found only Sir John Cust, the Speaker, warm in his sympathy. He was told by both Cust and the Duke of Atholl that once Chatham had been absent all hope of anything being done that session was gone, and he went home. Lord Clare at the Board of Trade was suspicious of the proposals and called the inhabitants of the Island's trading towns a nest of vermin collected from the dregs of the neighbouring countries. Hugh Cosnahan and his fellow delegates, arriving to learn what was being negotiated, waited on Hammersley the Duke's agent and told him the inhabitants were extremely ill used. In 1790 the Keys sent Norris Moore and John Cosnahan back again to oppose further compensation for the Duke, and Cosnahan made an able and brilliant speech at the Bar of the House. The money and the paperwork were London's too. Edmund Hoskins of Lincoln's Inn was one of the two trustees in whose names the Island was bought, and the seventy thousand pounds was paid into the Bank of England. The lawyer Rolt was hired there in 1766 to draw Moore's case for the Treasury, and produced a document about the prerogatives of the Lord rather than the rights of the people. The Island made one memorable appearance in the city. In February 1872 the Attorney-General, the senior member of the Keys and the Speaker drove to the thanksgiving at St Paul's in a carriage with the Three Legs painted on the panel, a symbol then almost unknown in London, and it attracted considerable attention.

Lord Cadogan's official report to the Treasury Lords on the problems of Manx copper coinage, referencing a 1766 memorial by Charles Lutwidge. Discusses the overvaluation of Manx pennies (14 pieces = 1 British shilling despite intrinsic worth of only 3 pence), counterfeiting risks, and the potential adoption of English copper coin. Relevant to post-Revestment fiscal and monetary policy.

Lord Cadogan's report to the Treasury Lords addressing the overvaluation of Manx copper currency (14 Manx pennies equalling one British shilling despite intrinsic worth of only 3 pence). References an earlier 1766 memorial by Mr Lutwidge and discusses the problems of counterfeiting and the need for currency reform, including introduction of English copper coin.

Peter King, first Baron King (1669-1734), Lord Chancellor from 1725 to 1733, and the author of the one sentence about the Isle of Man that every Manx writer quotes. Bishop Thomas Wilson framed his ecclesiastical constitutions in 1703. They were confirmed in full convocation of the clergy, passed in the House of Keys, ratified by the Earl of Derby as Lord of the Isle, and published at the Tynwald Hill on 6 June 1704, which made the canons of the Manx Church part of its statute law as well. King was so much pleased with them that he said that if the ancient discipline of the Church were lost, it might be found in all its purity in the Isle of Man. The remark took on a life of its own. Cruttwell printed it in his preface to Wilson's works, and from there it passed into every account of the Manx Church. It is quoted in the Manx Society volumes, in Feltham, in Bullock, in Walpole and in Hall Caine, and it is set beside Coke's remark that the Island has such laws the like whereof are not to be found in any other place. Train turned it against Wilson, using it to argue that the Bishop had been unduly severe, and altered the word purity in doing so, which his critics have not let pass. Hall Caine gives the word as force rather than purity and dates the saying to 1703. Keble observed that its date is nowhere actually given. Not every Manx writer took it as a compliment. Walpole, having described the officers of the consistory courts who gathered the tithes and were required to stand at the church doors during divine service on Sundays and whip away the dogs, remarked that it might charitably be hoped that Lord Chancellor King had only a superficial acquaintance with the discipline he was pleased to commend.

Robert Nugent, Lord Clare, First Lord of the Board of Trade when the Manx case was brought to London after the Revestment. George Moore came over on behalf of the Island and found him unhelpful. Clare was suspicious of the proposals attached to the Memorial, and when Moore set out the sufferings that had followed the stopping of the trade, the flight of the young people to other lands and the deserted dwellings of the towns, Clare answered with contempt, calling the inhabitants of the former trading towns a nest of vermin collected from the dregs of the neighbouring countries. In the Commons he was a fixture of the American debates. He held that the speech from the throne was orthodox and ought not to be questioned, and was sorry to find even a single negative voice against continuing the tax, though he was willing to see the House go into committee once he found there was dissension. He handled the Irish side of the argument in the same manner, complimenting Richard Rigby, jocularly, on the popularity and reverence in which the whole Irish nation held him. Answering a speech on the famine and the beggary of the American colonists he declined to enter the lists, saying he had in his hand a friend who was a match for the argument, his old friend Sir Joshua Gee. He was not only a partisan. In the debates on the relief of the Dissenters he compared England with France in the matter of religious penalties left to lie dormant, and in 1773 he told the committee on the poor laws that the distresses of the poor had become so urgent as to make an attempt at a remedy absolutely necessary, having made a minute enquiry in Essex and found a labourer there with six or seven children.

Lord Chief Justice of England, whose opinion was relied on in the settlement of the Duke of Atholl's Manx claims. The Manx connection is partly one of family. Mary, daughter of John and Bridget Senhouse, married Edward Law, Bishop of Carlisle, and among their children was the son who became Lord Ellenborough. The same Senhouse line runs into the Island: John Senhouse the High Sheriff died in 1767 and was succeeded by his son John, who in 1775 married Margaret, daughter of John Taubman of Castletown. His part in the Atholl business is recorded in the Home Office papers. Colonel Wilks, writing on the Duke's projects, refers to the arrangement for assigning to the Duke a portion of the public revenue and to Ellenborough's position on it, and elsewhere notes that on the customs questions in which the Duke had become interested by the Act, the opinion of Lord Sidmouth is stated to have concurred pretty nearly with that of Lord Ellenborough. In England he sat through the great set-pieces of the Regency years. He put questions to the witnesses in the proceedings against Queen Caroline, moved the second reading of the Marriage Act Amendment Bill in 1820, argued that a petition from a princess was to be treated exactly as one from the lowest subject in the kingdom, and objected in committee to the word engine as too general in a bill about the protection of game. The statute that bears his name, Lord Ellenborough's Act, is cited in the Commons on capital convictions for wounding.

Thomas Fairfax, third Baron Fairfax of Cameron (1612-1671), commander of the New Model Army, and Lord of Mann after the surrender of the Island in 1651. He took possession through commissioners rather than in person. The conquest complete, he asserted his right under the Act of Parliament and appointed James Chaloner, William Steane and John Rushworth to enquire into his estate in the Island and its yearly value. On 4 December 1651 they deputed Captains Eaton and Beale to make the enquiries and to notify the tenants of his right. On 17 August 1652 he named commissioners for the government of the Isle: Chaloner, Robert Dynely, and Joshua Witton, minister of the gospel. Early in the following year the Council of State took up the condition of the Island as to its civil government and its security against an enemy, conferred with Chaloner, and was told of Fairfax's intention of sending over a Governor and other well-affected persons. He appointed William Christian, Illiam Dhone, Governor in 1656, the only Manx-born man ever to hold that office, and Chaloner succeeded Christian in 1658. He is the dedicatee of the first good book about the Island. Chaloner's Short Treatise of the Isle of Man is inscribed to His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, Lord of Man and of the Isles, and the arms of the Island and of Lord Fairfax are engraved on the plates with the map. He held the Lordship for eight years. By his wife Anne he had an only daughter, who married George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, a match that displeased the Protector: the Royalist sympathies of the girl's mother were well known, and it was thought a grave matter that the daughter should ally herself with a nobleman of one of the largest rent-rolls in England. She died in 1704. Fairfax was succeeded as fourth Baron by his cousin Henry, grandson of the first Lord Fairfax, who died in 1693 aged eighty-six without issue.

Lord John Murray, brother of James, second Duke of Atholl, who came over with him when he took possession of the Island. The account of the Duke's entry into Man in 1736, taken from a manuscript that belonged to the Stevensons of Balladoole, names the company. The Duke was accompanied by Lord John Murray his brother, Sir Patrick Murray of Balmanno, John Murray Esquire the Principal Clerk of Sessions, Patrick Lindsay member for Edinburgh, and Major Stevenson of the fourth troop of Guards, son to John Stevenson the Speaker of the Keys. Lord John and his company reached the Island on the Saturday morning, 19 June, the day the Twenty-Four Keys waited on the Duke with their address as representatives of the people, and the Duke went on attended by them and by many others. He was a soldier by profession, and his regiment appears among those listed in the army accounts laid before the Commons.

Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878), served twice as Prime Minister. His connection to the Isle of Man relates to his involvement in the governance and constitutional development of the Island during the mid-nineteenth century.

Thomas Hay, Lord Kinnoull, formerly Lord Dupplin, who wrote to the Duke of Atholl on the conclusion of the Revestment. His letter is dated from Dupplin on 9 March 1765. Mr Mackenzie had already told him of what he called the happy conclusion of the Duke's troublesome and interesting business, and he wrote to congratulate the Duke and Duchess. He could form no judgement, he said, how far the compensation was adequate to the loss the Duke would suffer in his income, but it was his clear opinion that all circumstances considered the agreement was one it had been proper, wise and prudent to accede to, for the benefit of the family as well as for the Duke's own ease and security. He put the success in an arduous and delicate transaction down to the Duke's firmness, moderation and spirit, and thought the hard and severe trials he had undergone since coming into his honours and estate had gained him credit as well as experience. In the same letter he reported that no performance at the Bar of the House of Commons had been spoken of with such universal and high applause as Mr Cooper's since Lord Mansfield left that Bar. He was a Treasury politician of the Newcastle connection. He succeeded his father in July 1758 and had been on an embassy to Portugal. Newcastle thought him indispensable and told him in September 1760 that he could do nothing well in a new Parliament without him, though the world at large, as Namier records, held him opprobriously and injuriously to be an absolute fool. He resigned the Chancellorship of the Duchy in anger when the Duke of Devonshire's name was struck out of the Privy Council in November 1762, and when Newcastle went into opposition he withdrew from politics altogether.

Congratulatory letter from Lord Kinnoull to the Duke of Atholl following the successful conclusion of the negotiations for the sale of sovereignty over the Isle of Man to the British Parliament. Kinnoull affirms that the compensation agreement was prudent and reflects positively on Atholl's conduct and firmness in the transaction. The letter also commends the oratorical performance of Mr Cooper at the House of Commons Bar.

Lord Chief Justice, trustee of the Atholl settlement of the Isle of Man, and the man whose advice fixed the price at the Revestment. His Manx involvement began long before the sale. By the indenture of feoffment of 14 November 1737, Duke James granted and confirmed the Island and lordship of Man to John, Earl of Dunmore, the Honourable William Murray, afterwards Lord Mansfield, and John Murray, on trusts reserved to the Duke to revoke. He was therefore a trustee of the estate he later helped to sell, and a kinsman of the sellers. When the Duke and Duchess of Atholl came to terms with the Crown in 1765, they named seventy thousand pounds. Their own account, given to Parliament long afterwards, was that they named that figure because they understood from Lord Mansfield, their mutual friend, that no more would be given if they asked it, and that even then they would not have signed the contract had they not been promised the pension of two thousand a year as part of the bargain. The Duke's letter to Mansfield asking his advice enclosed a detailed estimate putting the family's losses at six hundred and twenty thousand pounds. That gap between the estimate and the price is the arithmetic on which the Atholl claims of 1791, 1805 and 1825 all rested. In England he is the Mansfield of the general warrants and the law of libel. He confirmed Pratt's decision that general warrants were illegal. His doctrine that a jury had nothing to do with whether a paper was a libel was attacked by Fox in the Commons in 1791, who allowed that no man would dispute his integrity as a judge while holding that he had got into a position there was no defending. Wilkes, in exile, believed Mansfield would pass a terrible sentence on him.

Letter from Lord Mansfield advising the Duke of Atholl on strategy regarding the prospective purchase of the Isle of Man by Parliament. Mansfield cautions against premature response and emphasizes the importance of legal counsel before Parliament convenes. He critiques the approach of other parties (identified cryptically as Sr R W Mr P & D of N) who seek to extract information and demands without committing to formal negotiation or purchase of the whole sovereignty.

Letter from Lord Mansfield (Lord Chief Justice) to the Duke of Atholl advising on strategy for responding to a Treasury proposal regarding Isle of Man. Mansfield counsels caution, recommends a private approach to Grenville, and suggests textual revisions to the Duke's draft response. The letter reveals concerns about the Treasury's intentions and draws parallels to earlier negotiations under Newcastle.

Legal advice from Lord Mansfield (Chief Justice) to the Duke of Atholl regarding the pending parliamentary purchase of Isle of Man sovereignty. Mansfield cautions against responding to Parliament's inquiries until the Duke has retained proper counsel, warns that Parliament intends no formal treaty but rather demands the Duke reveal his circumstances and price expectations, and advises waiting until after Christmas when Parliament reconvenes.

Private letter from Lord Chief Justice Mansfield to the Duke of Atholl offering legal and tactical advice on how to respond to a letter from the Lords of the Treasury regarding Isle of Man affairs. Mansfield cautions against the Treasury's 'insidious' approach and recommends diplomatic communication with Grenville, comparing the situation to previous dealings with Walpole, Pelham, and Newcastle. Includes editorial suggestions for revising Atholl's draft response.

Frederick North, Lord North (1732-1792), Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782, whose government administered the Isle of Man through the first two decades after the Revestment. The Island's business came to him as routine departmental work. Governor Edward Smith wrote to him in October 1783 asking for leave of absence, for a chapel in Castle Rushen for the use of the troops barracked within it, and for a royal portrait. Under the arrangement by which Smith and his Lieutenant-Governor held their offices, one of the two had to be resident on the Island, and North accordingly told Smith that he must relieve Dawson. Smith was by then already showing the signs of the illness that brought his resignation seven years later. On the questions that touched the Island's trade he was a protectionist. When the importation of cotton into Ireland was proposed he spoke against it, following Sir Thomas Egerton, who had told the House that if it were once permitted there would be an end to the prosperity of England and the people of Manchester in particular would be completely ruined. Burke tried to show the folly of the apprehension, and failed to carry a committee. Later speakers used his administration as a byword. They cited it for the seventy thousand stand of arms sent to Ireland which were afterwards used in rebellion, for a beer tax that allowed a deduction to the public brewer, and for the Shoreham franchise measure said to have been extorted from the weakness of his government and passed by small majorities in small houses.

Merged. Lord Strange was the courtesy title borne by the eldest sons of the Stanley Earls of Derby, who were Lords of Mann. The holder bound up with the Island is James Stanley, who governed it as Lord Strange from 1628 and came to the earldom in 1642, and the account is now held under his own item, James Stanley, seventh Earl of Derby. See that item.