H.M.Attorney General for the Isle of Man, 1980 – 93; Second Deemster, 1993 – 98; First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls, 1998 – 2003.
Professor Peter Edge
'1867 in Imperial
Perspective '
Peter Edge was educated at Ballasalla Primary School and Castle Rushen High School before studying law at Lancaster University, and going on to study for a PhD on Manx law and legal history at Wolfson College, Cambridge. An expended version of his doctoral thesis was published by the Isle of Man Law Society as Manx Public Law, now available as a free ebook. His most recent Manx project, published in International Journal of the Legal Profession, was a study of the licensing of foreign lawyers to practise Manx law in Manx courts. He is Professor of Law at Oxford Brookes University.
Dr Robert Fyson
‘The
first election to the House of Keys, 1867’
Robert
Fyson, M.A. (Oxford), Ph.D. (Lancaster), is a retired senior lecturer in
history at Staffordshire University. The subject of his Ph.D. thesis was
‘Chartism in North Staffordshire’. He is a frequent visitor to the Isle of Man.
His Manx publications include an article ‘Labour History’, in John Belchem,
ed., A New History of the Isle of Man Vol. 5: 1830-1999, Liverpool,
2000; fifteen entries in Dollin Kelly, ed., New Manx Worthies, 2006; The
Anglo-Manxman: A Life of A. W. Moore, Douglas, 2009; and several papers and
reviews in the Proceedings of the Isle of Man Natural History and
Antiquarian Society and its successor Isle of Man Studies, his
topics including the Chartist Bronterre O’Brien’s time in the Isle of Man,
Gladstone’s visit to the Island, and the Douglas Camp Shootings of 1914.
Dr Kit Gawne
‘The Cursed Crew of Taubmans and Quayles’ | The House of Keys in the eighteenth century
Dr C.W. Gawne was a career government officer, and, after taking early retirement, Kit decided to pursue a long-held ambition to return to academic study. He gained an MA through the University of Liverpool in 1999 and then a PhD in 2005. He was appointed an honorary research fellow of the University in 2009.
Kit’s specific academic interests have focused on the development of the financial, political, constitutional and social issues associated with the relationship the Isle of Man has had with Britain. He has concentrated principally on the historical concerns surrounding the contentious Manx fiscal issues.
His book Controversy: From Smuggling to the Common Purse was based on his doctoral thesis and was published in 2009. He researched and wrote Isle of Man Hockey in 2010. He co-authored the book Dear Sir, the Life and Letters of a Manxman in 2013. He is presently involved in researching and writing for part of A New History of the Isle of Man, Volume 4, The Derby and Atholl Periods, 1405-1830.
Michael Hoy, MBE, MA, PhD
'Votes for Women'
Mike Hoy is a West Countryman from the Cotswolds. He read English at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and came to the Island in 1970 to become head of English and drama at King William’s College. In 2003 he was appointed MBE for services to Education and the Arts in the Isle of Man. He is the author of two books on the history of King William’s College and its foundation charities – A Blessing to this Island and Isaac Barrow: his Life and Legacy. In 2015 he completed a PhD research project with the University of Liverpool, which explored the development of education and literacy in the Isle of Man in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is currently undertaking further research into early modern Manx social history for the Universities of Huddersfield and Liverpool, and he is a lecturer on the University College Isle of Man’s History and Heritage degree course. His leisure interests include music, the theatre and walking.
Mike J. Southall, MBE
'Coins of the
Isle of Man from the 18th Century'
Mike’s interest in numismatics started as a schoolboy collecting one coin of each date then in circulation. There were ‘bun’ pennies going back to 1860 still to be found in change and silver coins dating back to 1816. His particular interest in coins of the Isle of Man goes back to 1979. Since then he has made an in-depth study of Manx coins and has written and published the authoritative work entitled Coins of the Isle of Man. The second updated edition of this book is to be published on 10th April 2017; the day on which the new Manx circulating coins will be launched by the Treasury.
In 2003 Mike was awarded the M.B.E. for services to young people in the Isle of Man and he recently received the Scout Association’s highest award - the Silver Wolf.
