Richard Kenneth Corkill (born 1951) was the

Chief Minister of the Isle of Man The Chief Minister (Manx: ''Ard-shirveishagh'') is the executive head of the Isle of Man Government. The office derives from that of Chairman of the Executive Council. Before 1980 the Executive Council was chaired by the Lieutenant Governor, b ...

, December 2001 to December 2004 and an elected member of the House of Keys from 1991 to 2006. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man. He was elected by Tynwald with 21 votes, defeating

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, who received 10 votes.

Governmental positions

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, 1995-1996 * Minister of the Treasury, 1996-2001 *

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, 2001-2004

The Corkill Council

Council changes

In what would have been a mid term shake up, Mr Corkill replaced MLCs

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and

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who has come under fire as Health and DLGE ministers respectively. Steve Rodan was promoted to

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and Bill Henderson and

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were given their first jobs in the council.

References

1951 births Living people Chief Ministers of the Isle of Man Members of the House of Keys 1991–1996 Members of the House of Keys 1996–2001 Members of the House of Keys 2001–2006 People from Douglas, Isle of Man Heads of government who were later imprisoned {{IsleofMan-politician-stub