The 'New' Manx Worthies
After much delay, the long anticipated "New Manx Worthies"
gen ed Dollin Kelly was published in 2006 (Douglas:MNH ISBN 0-9547-180-4-6)-
the following list is taken from the Index.
Unlike A.W.Moore's Manx Worthies
the criterion of Manx birth was not insisted upon, though, like Moore, all those
included had to be dead - initially the volume was to be restricted to those
dying after Moore had published his work in 1903, but this too was relaxed to
include some who were not treated by Moore. I have linked to any biographical
sketch I had on ManxNoteBook though usually the NMW will provide a fuller
sketch. One significant criticism of the New Worthies I can make is that
all too often the actual reference to published material is very skimpy.
- ALCOCK, William Henry MHK, campaigner for Manx postage stamps
- BAUME Pierre Henri Joseph, Benefactor, eccentric and recluse
- BENTLEY Richard ('Dick') Read, Pioneer aviator, Upper Freeman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators
- BOLTON Sir John Brown MHK, MLC, champion of low taxation policies
- BOULTON Sydney, Journalist
- BRAIDE Mark Hughes, Manx Gaelic speaker and official Tynwald translator
- BREARLEY Henry, Ale, wine and spirit merchant
- BRIDSON Annie Dorothy MHK, and first woman president of the Manx Labour Party
- BRIDSON Thomas Gerald MHK, and parish walker
- BROADBENT Samuel Keown, Newspaper proprietor and editor of the Isle of Man Examiner
- BROWN George John Archibald, Newspaper proprietor and editor of the Isle of Man Times
- BROWN Ian William Baron Knox, Architect
- BROWN John Archibald, Newspaper editor and tourist property developer
- BROWN Thomas Edward, The Manx National Poet
- BRUCE Alexander, Banker and entrepreneur
- BRUCE John Ronald, Marine biologist and local antiquarian
- BUCKLEY Peter, Champion cyclist
- BUXTON Frederick Douglas, Founder of Lon Dhoo and Lon Vane choirs, singing teacher
- CAIN Charles, Lifeboat coxswain
- CAIN Richard MHK, Founder World Manx Association,
- CAIN Robert Henry, Hero of Arnhem
- CAIN Thomas Edwin, Mariner and hero of two World Wars
- CAIN William, Philanthropist and building contractor in Australia
- CAINE Philip Wilby, Manx poet and antiquarian
- CAINE Thomas Henry Hall MHK, JP, man of letters
- CALLISTER John Edward MHK, Bank manager and socialist MHK
- CANNON Charles Alfred, Manx speaker, Yn Lhaihder
- CANNON George Quayle, Mormon missionary and politician
- CANNON James Alexander, Practitioner of orthodox and alternative health treatments
- CARRAN Robert, Pioneer farmer
- CASEMENT Robert, Engineer and designer of the Laxey Wheel
- CASHEN William, Folklorist, Manx Gaelic linguist
- CASHIN Caesar, Fisherman, Manx Gaelic linguist
- CASHIN Thomas Lancaster, Michael's local historian
- CHRISTIAN Emily Margaret, Musician
- CHRISTIAN Ewan, Church architect and President of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- CHRISTIAN Joseph Henry, President of the Architectural Association
- CHRISTIAN Philip, Architect and philanthropist
- CHRYSTAL Alfred Edward, 'The most outstanding auctioneer the Island has ever known
- CLAGUE James Alexander, Mines captain, Langlaat, South Africa
- CLAGUE James Curwen, Journalist and Commonwealth Games official
- CLAGUE John, Physician, surgeon and collector of Manx music
- CLAGUE John Douglas, Banker, soldier and Hong Kong businessman
- CLUCAS John Donald MHK, CP, JP, Manx agricultural pioneer
- CLUCAS Thomas, Founder of Clucas's Laundry
- CLUCAS William Philip MHK, Labour leader and MHK
- COLEBOURN Thomas Harold MHK, Manx radio and television pioneer
- COLLISTER, Alfred James, Artist and art teacher
- CORLETT William Thomas, American medical professor
- CORMODE Benjamin Thomas Socialist writer and activist
- CORMODE Thomas Henry The first working-man MHK
- CORRIN James Robinson Labour Party member, preacher and political reformer, JP
- CORRIS Henry Lowe ('Harry Korris') Stage and radio comedian -'Mr. Lovejoy of Happidrome
- COSTAIN Richard Founder of the Costain building dynasty
- COTTIER Daniel, Artist and designer in stained glass
- COTTIER Thomas, Farmer and stock raiser
- COWEN George Bellett, Photographer
- COWIN William Stanley, Naturalist, co-founder of the Manx Field Club and of Peregrine
- COWLE James Builder, architect of Douglas Railway Station
- COWLEY Charles Henry Pharmacist and antiquarian
- COWLEY William Frederick, Musician
- COWLEY William Percy, 'The ablest Manxman of his generation
- CRAINE Walter Clucas ('Gussie') MHK, music hall acrobat and first Labour Mayor of Douglas
- CREGEEN Sheila Margaret Archaeologist, poet and playwright
- CRELLIN Geoffrey Thomas MHK, MLC, soldier, and lover of Manx folklore
- CRELLIN John Frissell MHK, MLC, CP, JP
- CRETNEY William Godfrey, Headmaster and educationalist
- CROOKALL Arthur Binns MLC, JP, caterer and philanthropist
- CROSBIE Thomas James Founder of the Manx Youth Band
- CROWE Edwin Norman MHK, MLC, farmer, sportsman
- CROWE William Alexander Chartered accountant
- CROWE William Ivor Corlett Land reclamation specialist and conservationist
- CUBBIN Robert Alfred Colby Benefactor, recluse and eccentric
- CUBBON Fred Matthias 'Priest, patriot and philanthropist'
- CUBBON Thomas William Architect
- CUBBON William, Journalist, librarian and director of the Manx Museum
- CUNNINGHAM Joseph MHK, MLC, CP, founder of Cunningham's Young Mens Holiday Camp
- CUNNINGHAM William Rose Holiday camp director, Island Scout Commissioner, JP, and benefactor
- DOUGLAS Constance Mona Author, journalist, musician and antiquarian
- DOUGLAS Joseph Edward, Architect, artist and writer
- DOUGLAS Robert Fargher, Builder
- DRINKWATER William Leece, Lawyer, 50 years a Deemster
- DRURY William Founder of Braddan open air church services
- DUNNE John Francis ('Bugler') Hero of Colenso
- ELLIOTT John Anderson Kinrade Methodist minister and Chaplain to the House of Keys
- FARAGHER Edward ('Nedddy Beg Hom Ruy) Fisherman, farmer, author and folklorist
- FARAGHER John Thomas Alderman and first Manx-born Freeman of Douglas, JP
- FARAGHER Millicent Hotelier, policewoman, socialist and anti-birch campaigner
- FARGHER Douglas Crebbin Manx Gaelic linguist and lexicographer
- FARRANT Reginald Douglas First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls, chairman of the Manx Museum Trustees, CP, JP
- FORSTER Robert Edward Cringle Teacher and antiquarian
- GARDNER Gerald Brosseau, 'Founder of modern witchcraft'
- GELL James Deemster and constitutional reformer, CP
- GELL John Manx Gaelic scholar, teacher
- GELL Mary Prowse Medical missionary and co-founder of War on Want
- GELLING Peter Stanley Archaeologist
- GIBB Janet Anne and Alice Blake, Donors of The Grove, Ramsey
- GIBB Maurice Ernest, Member of the Bee Gees pop group
- GILL Alexander, Douglas and Onchan developer, builder of the Palace Ballroom, Coliseum and Gaiety Theatre
- GILL Annie Warren, President, Royal College of Nursing
- GILL Frank Telephony and international communications engineer
- GILL Hugh Stowell Archdeacon of Man
- GILL John, Builder of Cleveland Terminal Tower, Ohio
- GILL William Henry, Author and musician, collector of Manx folk tunes
- GILL William Walter Poet, folklorist and scholar
- GOLDIE George, Founder of Nigeria
- GOODWIN Edmund Evans Greaves Music teacher, linguist, folklorist
- GOULDEN Sophia Jane Pioneer of women's suffrage, mother of Emmeline Pankhurst
- HAY Henry Hanby, 'Professor of Boyology
- HERDMAN William Abbott, Founder of the Marine Biological Station,Port Erin
- HOGGATT William An 'almost-Manx' artist
- HOPE-GILL Cecil Gervase, Diplomat
- HOWARTH Ralph Woollen manufacturer and naturalist
- HOWIE George Wylie The island's first agricultural organiser
- IRVING Edward Clifford MHK, MLC
- ISDALE William Postmaster, educational reformer
- JOHNSON Ramsey Gelling Deemster, CP, agricultural marketing reformer
- KEE John Brown, Co-founder of the Ramsey Steamship Company
- KELLY Harry Native Manx speaker
- KELLY Henry Percy Manx scholar, Welsh Bard, Cornish Bard, High Bailiff
- KELLY John Orry ('Orry-Kelly') Hollywood costume designer and Academy Award winner
- KELLY Leslie Town Clerk of Peel
- KENYON Hugh Director of Prison Administration
- KENYON John Stowell, Businessman and local antiquary
- KERMODE Jonathan John Oxton, Marine engineer and artist
- KERMODE Josephine ('Cushag') Poet
- KERMODE Philip Moore Callow, Naturalist and pioneer of Manx archaeology
- KERMODE Thomas ('Boy Doal') Blind singer of traditional airs
- KERRUISH Henry Charles Manx politician and Commonwealth parliamentarian
- KERRUISH William Sheldon Lawyer and benefactor, Cleveland, Ohio
- KEWLEY David ('Dawsey) 'The bravest Manxman
- KEWLEY Venerable John, 'perhaps the greatest figure in the Manx church in the 20th century'
- KEWLEY John Hero of the Snaefell Mine disaster
- KILLIP Marjorie Dance teacher and producer
- KISSACK Reginald ('Rex') Methodist minister and university chaplain; member of the World Council of Methodists and of
the original Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam); co-founder of the Isle of Man Family History Society
- KITTO William Henry Captain of Foxdale Mines, MHK, JP
- KNEALE Angèle Mathilde ('Angela') Anti-Nazi resistance worker, Quaker, French Consular Agent and anti-birch campaigner
- KNEALE Edwin Cornelius Cycle TT winner and 'The Man Who Saved Laxey Wheel'
- KNEEN John Joseph, Gaelic scholar and author
- KNEEN Richard MHK, MLC, social and political reformer,'the Workers' Friend'
- KNOX Archibald, Art Nouveau artist and designer for Liberty & Co., London
- LAUGHTON Florence Holford Secretary and founding treasurer of the Isle of Man Fine Arts and Industrial Guild
- LEBIEDZINSKI Paul Folk poet
- LIGHTFOOT Thomas Founder of the Douglas Horse Trams
- LOCH Henry Brougham, Reforming Lieutenant Governor
- MADDRELL Edward (Ned) Last native speaker of Manx Gaelic
- MADOC Henry William Chief Constable of the Isle of Man and ornithologist
- MAITLAND Dalrymple MHK, SHK, CP, JP, mill owner, company director
- MARSHALL Robert MHK, welfare pioneer and Manx scholar
- MARSTRANDER Carl Johan Sverdrup Celtic linguist and historian
- MCCAULEY John Author of A Manx Soldier's Diary
- MCFEE Cecil Cannell MHK, MLC, founder chairman of the Isle of Man Arts Council
- MEGAW Basil Richardson Stanley Director of the Manx Museum (1940-1957)
- MEGAW Eleanor Mary Archaeologist and anthropologist
- MILLER Harold ('Dusty') Artist and cartoonist
- MOORE Arthur William SHK, JP, Manx historian and antiquary, author of the original
Manx Worthies
- MOORE George Henry Landowner in Tasmania and New Zealand
- MOORE George Henry Watterson MHK, MLC, CP, mason, stockbroker
- MOORE Philip Alan South African parliamentarian,creator of the Rand
- MOORE Ramsey Bignall MHK, MLC, Attorney General, antiquary and author
- MOORE William Member of Tasmanian Legislature
- MOORE William Henry Mariner, harbourmaster and lifesaver
- MORRISON Robert Edward Portrait and landscape painter
- MORRISON Sophia, Manx cultural fieldworker, campaigner and writer
- MYLCHREEST Joseph MHK, JP, 'The Diamond King'
- MYLCHREEST Phoebe Ann Ada Contralto
- MYLCRAINE William Organist and composer
- NICHOLSON John Hobson, Artist and designer of Manx postage and revenue stamps, currency notes and gold coinage
- NICHOLSON John Miller, 'The Island's greatest painter'
- NIVISON John Allen Cowell Kennedy MHK, MLC, CP, veteran Manx Labour politician
- NOBLE Henry Bloom Property developer, banker and public benefactor
- NORRIS Samuel MHK, MLC, journalist, 'Fearless leader of Manx democracy'
- OKELL William Surgeon, apothecary, founder of Okell's Brewery
- ONLEY Norman Anthony ('Toní) 'The flying artist'
- PANTIN Charles Guy Noble's Hospital consultant pathologist,founder of the Postgraduate Medical Centre
- PANTIN Charles Satchell Honorary Surgeon, Noble's Hospital, Surgeon to the Household
- PANTIN Dorothy The island's first woman doctor, first Medical Supervisor of the Jane Crookall Maternity Home
- PATON George, Clergyman, social reformer, and friend of the poor
- PICKARD Henry ('Harry') Teacher, musician, choir and festival director
- PIXTON Cecil Howard Pioneer aviator
- QUALTROUGH Ambrose, Radical MHK
- QUALTROUGH Joseph MHK, MLC, Receiver General, ship-owner and shipyard proprietor
- QUALTROUGH Joseph Davidson MHK, SHK, JP, constitutional reformer
- QUAYLE George Edward, Author of Legends of a Lifetime
- QUAYLE Thomas Ohio shipbuilder
- QUILLIAM William Henry ('Abdullah') (aka LEON, Henri Marcel )'Leader of the Moslem Church
in Great Britain
- QUINE John Clergyman, scholar and author
- QUINE John Lindsay MHK, naval officer and inventor
- QUINE Richard Henry Instigator of the Manx National Trust
- QUINE Sylvester Lindsay Airman and radio pioneer
- QUINE Thomas Frederick Miller and developer of Silverdale Glen
- QUINE William MHK, miller and developer of Glen Helen and Silverdale
- QUINE Willard Van Orman ... the most important philosopher of the latter half of the twentieth century'
- QUIRK William Thomas, Poet, composer, preacher and teacher
- RADCLIFFE Constance Kewin, Historian, teacher and author
- RADCLIFFE John William ('Bill') Manx scholar, Yn Lhaihder
- RADCLIFFE Percy MHK, MLC, farmer and horseman
- RADCLIFFE Thomas Robinson MHK, journalist and newspaper proprietor
- RALFE Pilcher George Ornithologist, naturalist and historian
- REES-JONES Geoffrey Rippon Principal of King William's College (1958-79)
- RIGBY Armitage, MHK, architect who restored Castle Rushen
- ROBERTSON Alexander, Town Clerk and Freeman of Douglas, JP
- ROBINSON Mildred Jessie ('Millie'), International cyclist
- ROEDER Charles [Carl], Celtic scholar
- SARGEAUNT Bertram Edward Government Secretary and Treasurer (1910-1943)
- SCOTT Mackay Hugh Baillie, 'Arts and Crafts' architect
- SHIMMIN Christopher Robert MHK, JP, author, playwright, trade unionist
- SHIMMIN Marion The Island's first woman Member of the House of Keys
- SLACK George Stuart Civil servant, song writer, author, cyclist
- STENNING Ernest Henry Vice-Principal of King William's College and Archdeacon of Man
- STEVENSON Ralph Claremont Skrine Soldier, diplomat, MLC, CP
- SCOTT Robert Leonard ('Bob'), Member of the Provincial Brokers' Stock Exchange, company director, entrepreneur, chairman
of Onchan Village Commissioners
- STOWELL Phillip Leighton, Folk dancer and Manx scholar
- SWYNNERTON Joseph William, Stonemason and sculptor
- TEARE Alfred James JP, MHK, MLC, Freeman of Douglas and founding father of the Manx Labour Party
- TEARE Robert Donald, Forensic pathologist
- THORNTON-DUESBERY Jean Constance Catherine MHK, JP, Girl Guide Commissioner
- TOOTELL George, Cinema organist, composer and arranger
- VERNON Eric Consultant surgeon to Noble's Hospital, Surgeon to the Household
- WALKER William Henderson, Founder of the Island's first firm of chartered accountants
- WALLACE Joseph Ritson, Museum curator and co-founder of the Manx Liberal newspaper
- WARD James Kewley Businessman, benefactor, Canadian politician
- WHITE George Stuart Defender of Ladysmith, Governor of Gibraltar
- WILKINSON Henry Cephas Director of Education (1952-1968)
- WILLIAMSON Kenneth, Ornithologist
- WILLIAMSON Louisa Elizabeth Educationalist
- WILLIAMSON Robert, Creator of Laxey Glen Gardens
- WOOD George Henry JP, secretary, manager and director of the Isle of Man Railway Company
- WOOD Harry 'Manxland's King of Music'
- WOOD Haydn Songwriter and composer
- WOOD Mary Louisa, 'The mother of Manx music'
- WOODS James Compiler and publisher of Woods' Atlas
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