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. The High Bailiff is the head stipendiary

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, who took office on 11 March 2019. The High Bailiff and their deputy are appointed by the Lieutenant Governor. The High Bailiff and Deputy High Bailiff are ''ex officio'' judicial officers of the High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man and coroners of inquests. Originally there was a High Bailiff of each of the four towns of the island: Castletown, Ramsey, Peel and Douglas. In 1911 the offices of High Bailiff of Castletown and Douglas, and the offices of High Bailiff of Peel and Ramsey, were merged. Those offices were merged in turn in 1933 to form a single office of High Bailiff of the Isle of Man. {, class="wikitable" , +Lists of High Bailiffs !Castletown!!Douglas!!Peel!!Ramsey , - , valign="top", *

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, 1777-? * Robert Kelly, 1811–? * John Kelly, 1832–1854 * James Gell, 1854–1865 * John Moore Jeffcott, 1865–1892 *

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, 1892–1911 , valign="top", * John Cosnahan, 1777–1808 * Norris Moore, 1808–1816 *

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, 1816–1819 * James Quirk, 1820–1841 * John Courtney Bluett, ?-1855 * Senhouse Wilson, 1855–1864 * Samuel Harris, 1864–1905 *

, 1905–1911 , valign="top", * Robert Farrant, 1777–1794 *Captain George Savage, 1794–1802 * Thomas Clark, 1802–1807 *

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, 1808–1817 * James Quirk, 1817–1820 * John Llewellyn, 1820–1840 * Richard Harrison, 1840–1853 *

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, 1777–1794 *

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, 1805–1812 *

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, 1812–1821 *

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, 1821–1828 * John Caesar Gelling, 1828–1832 * Frederick Tellett, 1832–1873 *

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Alured Dumbell Sir Alured Dumbell MLC (12 January 1835 – 12 March 1900) was a senior judge who was Clerk of the Rolls of the Isle of Man. Dumbell was born in Douglas, the son of the well-known banker, lawyer and politician George Dumbell MHK and Mary Gibs ...

, 1873–1880 * John Corlet LaMothe, 1880–1898 * James Murray Cruikshank, 1898–1911 , - !colspan=2, Douglas and Castletown !colspan=2, Ramsey and Peel , - , valign="top" colspan=2, *

, 1911–1918 * Reginald Douglas Farrant, 1919–1925 * William Lay, 1925–1933 , valign="top" colspan=2, * James Murray Cruikshank, 1911–1916 * F. M. LaMothe, 1916–1921 * William Lay, 1921–1925 * William Percy Cowley, 1925–1933 , - !colspan=4, Isle of Man , - , align="center" colspan=4, * William Lay, 1933–1937 * Henry Percy Kelly, 1937–1938 * Ramsey Gelling Johnson, 1938–1947MLR 1921–51 * Howard Deighton Lay, 1947–1961 *

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, 1961–1969 *

Henry Callow Henry Callow (died 14 April 2006) was a former Second Deemster in the Isle of Man. He began his career as a Manian advocate and was then appointed High Bailiff in 1969. After 19 years in the post, he was made Second Deemster until retiring in 1 ...

, 1969–1988 * Weldon Williams, 1988–1995 * Andrew Williamson, 1995–2002 * Michael Moyle, 2002–2010 *

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, 2010 *

, 2019

Deputy High Bailiffs

*''Unknown'', 1933–1977 * Weldon Williams, 1977–1988 * Andrew Williamson, 1988–1995 * Michael Moyle, 1995–2002 * Alastair Montgomerie, 2002–2011 *

, 2011 *Christopher Arrowsmith, 2019 *James Brooks, 2021

References

Manx law Government occupations Region-specific legal occupations Judiciary of the Isle of Man

Deputy High Bailiffs

See also

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