Sir John Senhouse Goldie-Taubman JP (28 January 1838 – 9 November 1898) was a Manx politician. He was born in

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into a prominent family. He followed his father,

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, both into the

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and also as

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. He was first elected as a Member by the Keys in 1859 and then elected by the voters of Douglas in 1867, when he was chosen as the new Speaker. He oversaw first the new elected Keys and then its move to the new House of Keys in

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in 1874. He became the first Provincial Grand Master of th
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from 1886 to 1898. He was a half-brother of Sir

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, who founded the

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. In 1860, he married Amelia Donald Ankerville Grove-Ross and they had seven children. One of their children, Lady Ellen Margaret Fry , married General Sir William Fry, Governor of the Isle of Man in 1886. He was knighted on 17 January 1896 by

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. Goldie-Taubman died at Douglas residence, The Nunnery, from

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on 9 November 1898, having been ill for over three weeks.

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