List of Deemsters

[Taken from Journal of Manx Museum vol VI #78 p160 1961/2 - compiled by Ramsey Bignal Moore]

OWING to the lack of early records, the list cannot record any Deemsters before 1408, and is not necessarily complete, for the earlier years. The dates given are those of the first appearance of a name in the records, although the person may have been in office for some time previously.

The list is compiled from the Liber Juramentorum, the Isle of Man Statutes, and the author acknowledges with gratitude the additional names provided by David Craine, M.B.E., M.A, C.P., from his researches—R B.M

1408 John McCristen
1417 John Clerke
1419 William McCrysten
1419 Jenkin Moore
1496 John Moore
1497 William McCorkill
1498 John McCristen
1504 Jenkin Moore
1511 Thomas Norris
1511 John McCristen
1524 Edward Corkill (McCorkill)
1527 John McCristen
1535 Thomas Samsbury
1535 William McCristen
1537 John Lucas
1540 Robert Samsbury
1566 Robert Samsbury
1567 Hugh Clark
1576 Robert Cristen
1584 John Lucas
1585 Thomas Sansbury
1585 John Curghey (deputy)
1598 John Curghy
1598 Ewan Christian
1613 Thomas Sansbury
1629 Henry Radcliffe
1637 Hugh Cannell
1647 John Cannell
1647 Ewan Christian
1660 John Christian
1660 Thomas Norris
1662 Hugh Cannell
1663 William Qualtrough
1663 Thomas H. Fletcher
1669 Edward Christian
1678 Charles Christian (assistant in absence of his brother Edward)
1686 Thomas Norris
1693 Daniel Mylrea
1693 John Parr
1724 Nicholas Christian
1734 Daniel Mylrea
1736 Charles Moore
1739 John Taubman
1757 Daniel Lace
1764 Peter John Heywood
1768 Daniel Mylrea
1772 John Quayle
1773 Thomas Moore
1793 John Lace
1794 John Frissell Crellin
1812 Norris Moore
1816 Thomas Gawne
1819 John Cosnahan
1820 John McHutchin
1821 John Joseph Heywood
1823 John Christian
1847 Mark Hildesley Quayle (acting)
1847 William Leece Drinkwater
1855 John Clowes Stephen
1880 Alured Dumbell
1882 Alfred Walter Adams (acting)
1883 Richard Sherwood
1884 John Frederick Gill
1884 James Gell (acting)
1898 James Gell
1899 Thomas Kneen
1900 Henry Clordon Shee (acting)
1905 Stewart Stevenson Moore
1905 Charles Thomas Cheslyn Callow
1917 James Stowell Gell (acting)
1919 Frederick Malcolm Lamothe
1921, 1923, 1929 1935, 1936, 1938 and 1956 Ramsey Bignall Moore (acting)
1925 Reginald Douglas Farrant
1934 Robert Kingsley Chappell (acting)
1934 William Percy Cowley
1938 Ramsey Gelling Johnson
1944 Henry Robert Gelling (acting)
1946 Andrew Edmond James Clarke (acting)
1947 Gerald Ritchie Upjohn (acting)
1954 James Arthur Cain
1957 Sydney James Kneale
1958 Bruce Whyte Macpherson
1960 John Anthony Plowman (acting)