[Chapter 2 Manx Worthies, A.W.Moore, 1901]

CHAPTER II.

Nonconformity.

During its comparatively short history, Manx Nonconformity has produced a number of good and able men. Owing to the great difficulty of obtaining information, we are only able to refer to a few of them.

• PHILIP GARRETT (b. 1771, d. 1842),
• WILLIAM HENDRY STOWELL (b. 1800, d. 1857),
• WILLIAM THOMAS RADCLIFFE (b. 1816, d. 1897),
• HUGH STOWELL BROWN (b. 1823, d. 1886)

 Local Preachers

We regret that we have been able to find out so little about the early Manx Wesleyan local preachers, of whom Wesley said:" I never saw in England so many stout, well-looking preachers together. If their spirit be answerable to their look, I know not what can stand before them."* " How strange! ' as the late Thomas Kelly remarks, " notwithstanding we have had Manx Methodists second to none in philanthropy and piety that so little has been written of them "[ Of Clypston, from his lecture on Illiam-y-Close]
[* Rosser. 'Wesleyan methodism in the Isle of Man' p99.]

• Local Preachers

The Quakers

• The Quakers