List
of Governors of the Isle of ManList
of Governors of the Isle of Mantaken from A.W.Moore Supplement to History of the Isle of
Man
| Date | Governor (Earlier title was Captain) |
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| English Suzerainty | |
| ? 1290 | Richard de Burgh (Burgo) |
| ? 1293 | John Balliol |
| ? 1298 | Antony Bek |
| 1310 | Henri de Bello Monte |
| 1311 | Piers Gaveston |
| 1312 | Henri de Bello Monte |
| Direct Rule - see Lords | |
| 1399 | Henry de Percy (Earl of Northumberland) |
| 1405 | Michael Blundel |
| 1417 | John Litherland |
| [?1418] | ? John Fazakerly (given in Manx Note Book - also by Feltham; John Cote was arrained for arguing with Fazakerly in 1428) |
| 1422 | John Walton |
| 1428 | Henry Byron |
| no records from 1428-1496 | |
| 1496 | Peter Dutton |
| 1497 | Henry Radcliffe |
| 1508 (?1505) | Ralph Rushton |
| 1511 | John Ireland |
| 1518 | John Fazakerley (? 1418 - confusion though given in Quayle's list) |
| 1521 | Thomas Danport |
| 1527 | Henry Stanley |
| 1532 | John Ffleming |
| 1536 | George Stanley |
| 1545 | William Stanley |
| 1552 | Henry Stanley |
| 1576 | John Harmer |
| 1580 | John Sherburn [? Richard Sherburne (or Shireburne) of Stonyhurst 1578-1591 - Richard - the second son of Richard Sherburne of Stonyhurst, born 1546, was appointed Captain of IoM, moved there with first wife who died 1591, same year as his father (had 5 children + a illegitimate daughter - he moved back to Stoneyhurst, remarried 1611 (moved body of 1st wife back to Stonyhurst, a recusant Catholic]. |
| Bishop Meyrick [? unlikely] | |
| 1592 | Cuthbert Gerrard (+ Thomas Mortimer Deputy Captain) |
| 1593 | William Stanley |
| 1594 | Ranulph Stanley - died 1595 and supposed buried at Kirk Malew |
| 1595 | Thomas Gerard (Imposed by Queen Elizabeth)[Governor to 1608] |
| 1596 | Piers Legh [Captain to 1597, Deputies William Lucas, Edward Ellis, Edward More, Charles Young, Thomas Molyneux until 1609] |
| 1599 | Cuthbert Gerard [? deputy] |
| 1600 | Robert Molyneux [? deputy ] |
| 1609 | John Ireland |
| 1623 | Frederick Liege [?] |
| 1626 | Edward Holmewood |
| 1627 | Charles Gerard |
| 1639 | Ffoulkes Hunckes |
| 1640 | John Greenhalge [Greenhalgh] |
| 1651 | Philip Musgrave |
| Colonel R. Dukinfield | |
| 1652 | Matthew Cadwal |
| 1656 | William Christian |
| 1659 | James Chaloner |
| 1660 | Roger Nowel |
| 1664 | Bishop Barrow |
| 1673 | Henry Nowell (deputy from 1662) |
| 1677 | Henry Stanley |
| 1678 | Robert Heywood |
| 1690 | Roger Kenyon |
| 1693 | William Sacheverell |
| 1696 | Nicholas Sankey (col) |
| 1701 | James Cranstoun |
| 1703 | Robert Maudesley |
| 1713 | Charles Z. Stanley |
| 1718 | Alexander Horne (deputy from 1713) |
| 1723 | John Lloyd |
| 1725 | Thomas Horton |
| 1736 | James Murray |
| 1744 | Patrick Lindsey |
| 1751 | Basil Cochrane |
| 1761 | John Wood |
| 1777 | Edward Smith |
| 1793 | John Murray, Fourth Duke of Atholl |
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after 1832 all were tititled Lieutenant Governor and expected to be resident on the Island |
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| 1832 | John Ready |
| 1845 | Chas. Hope |
| 1860 | Francis-Stainsby-Conantt Piggot |
| 1863 | H B Loch |
| 1888 | Spencer Walpole |
| 1893 | John W. Ridgeway |
| 1895 | Lord Henniker |
| 1902 | Lord Raglan |
| 1918 | Sir Wm. Fry |
| 1925 | Sir Claude Hill |
| 1931 | Sir Montagu Butler |
| 1937 | Vice-Admiral the Earl of Granville |
| 1945 | Air Vice-Marshal Sir G.Bromet |
| 1952 | Sir Ambrose D. Flux Dundas |
| Lieutenant-Governors - usually resident whereas Governor was generally non-resident | |
| 1773 | Henry Hope |
| 1775 | Richard Dawson |
| 1790 | Alexander Shaw |
| 1804 | Lord Henry Murray (illicit Commission) he was legally only a deputy |
| 1805 | Cornelius Smelt |
Some additional information from
J.R Dickenson The Lordship of Man under the Stanleys 1996
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