Henry Nowell, Deputy-Governor and afterwards Governor of the Isle of Man, who ordered the sentence on Illiam Dhone.

He was a younger son of Roger Nowell of Read, by his second wife Catherine Hyde of Hyde and Norbury, and he came in with the Derby interest at the Restoration. The lists of governors show the family holding the Island between them. In 1660 Roger Nowell was Governor with Richard Stephenson as his deputy. In 1663 the deputyship was held by Henry Nowell for one part of the year and Thomas Stanley for the other. From 1664 he was deputy again under Bishop Barrow, and from 1669 he held the government himself until Henry Stanley succeeded him in 1677.

The trial of December 1662 ran through his hands. He was Captain of Castle Rushen and had William Christian in his custody and charge, and it was he, with Hugh Cannell the Lord's Attorney, whom the court sent with a guard of soldiers to require the prisoner to come to the bar and take his trial. When Christian refused, the order that followed bore Nowell's own signature: the court was required and ordered to pronounce sentence in the accustomed form, that he be brought to the place of execution called Hango Hill and there shot to death, that thereupon his life might depart from his body.

London did not let it pass. A warrant to apprehend Henry Nowell, Governor, and others was issued at Whitehall on 18 May 1663, and the Earl of Derby was writing to Secretary Bennet about the business through that May and June.

He was as hard on the Quakers as Chaloner had been. On 15 April 1665 he came to the Castle and read the prisoners an order from the Earl of Derby that they must forthwith be transported into some other land, and a fortnight later two men came by the Deputy-Governor's order to carry it out.

Hango Hill came back into his hands in a better cause. He is one of the attesting witnesses, as Governor, to the grant of the estates of Ballagilley and Hango Hill in Malew parish to trustees for an Academic Students' Fund, out of which King William's College at Castletown afterwards grew. The other witnesses were the Deemsters Richard Stephenson and Thomas Norris.