Lord of Man

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

The title is now Lord of Man regardless of gender. However, during her reign Queen Victoria was styled as Lady of Man.<ref>Writings of Edward Callow in 1899</ref>

The formal Latin style is Dominus Manniae.

The title is not correctly used on its own. The title of Lord of Man (and previously, King of Man) 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 Man.

[edit] Previous Lords

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

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 Man.

While the male line of the Stanley's was terminated with Ferdinand, many descendants in the female line have continued. Early Colonial American descendants included members from the families of Fairfax, Bladen, Tasker, Dulaney and Debutts. There is at least one descendant and claimant, David Howe-Stanley, to the title of "Prince of Man and the Isles," 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 1765was settled under duress by the Stanley heirs. This Act gave control of the Island, and ultimately the sovereignty, back to Sovereign of England where it rests to date with the Queen.