Lord of Mann

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The Lord of Mann (or Lord of Man) is the head of state of the Isle of Man. The current Lord of Mann is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The title is now Lord of Mann regardless of gender. However, during her reign Queen Victoria was styled as Lady of Man.^[1]

The formal Latin style is Dominus Manniae.

The title is not correctly used on its own. The title of Lord of Mann (and previously, King of Mann) has existed in a position of feudality beneath the Crown of the United Kingdom (before 1801, Great Britain; before 1707, England), and is not fully sovereign except by virtue of personal union with the Crown. For this reason, the form of Loyal Toast used on Man is The Queen, Lord of Mann.

1 Previous Lords
2 Present Lord
3 Heir Apparent
4 Notes
5 See also

[edit] Previous Lords

Prior to 1504, the ruler of the Isle of Man was the King of Mann.

Thomas III Stanley, 1504-1521
Edward Stanley, 1521-1572
Henry Stanley, 1572-1593
Ferdinando Stanley, 1593-1594
Total English Rule, 1594-1610
Vacant due to succession dispute - reverted to English Crown 1594-1607
Henry Howard 1607 - 1608
Robert Cecil, 1608 - 1609
William I Stanley, 1609-1612 (confirmed 1610)
Elizabeth Stanley, 1612-1627
James I Stanley, 1627-1651 ("the Great Stanley")
Thomas Fairfax (appointed) 1651-1660
Charles Stanley, 1660-1672
William II Stanley, 1672-1702
James II Stanley, 1702-1736
James II Murray, 1736-1764
John III Murray (in right of his wife, Charlotte), 1764-1765

In 1765, Charlotte Murray, 8th Baroness Strange sold the sovereignty of the island to the British government for £70,000 and the reigning Monarch of the United Kingdom became the Lord of Mann.

George III, 1765-1820^[1]
George IV, 1820-1830
William IV, 1830-1837
Victoria, 1837-1901
Edward VII, 1901-1910
George V, 1910-1936
Edward VIII, 1936
George VI, 1936-1952

as Lord of Mann, 1760-1820 as King of Great Britain

[edit] Present Lord

Elizabeth II, 1952-present

[edit] Heir Apparent

Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales

[edit] Notes

While unbroken succession in the male line of the Stanleys was terminated with Ferdinand, William Stanley 6th Earl of Derby reclaimed the Isle of Man by 1609. There is a claimant, David Howe-Stanley, to the rights as the de jure titular King of the Isle of Man and the Stanley royal crown based on at least two issues. One being that the title of King was forfeited by Thomas III without basis and never sold to England and two, claiming the Act of Revestment 1765 was settled under duress by the Stanley heirs. This Act gave control of the Island back to Sovereign of Great Britain where it rests to date with the Queen.