Chairmen and Speakers of the House of Keys
There have been twenty-six Chairmen and Speakers listed below

Left is Sir George Moore (Speaker 1758-1780) – the first Member of the House of Keys to insist on the title “Speaker.”
Right: Sir Charles Kerruish (Speaker 1962-1990)
– the longest serving Speaker in any Parliament in the Commonwealth and first President of Tynwald.
(Photo reproduced by kind permission of Morrison Photos)
| Chairmen & Speakers of The House of Keys | |
|
c.1649
|
Major Richard Stevenson |
|
c.1660-63
|
Edward Christian |
|
1673
|
Charles Christian |
|
1697
|
Captain Thomas Stevenson |
|
1704
|
Captain John Stevenson |
|
1738
|
Captain Thomas Heywood |
|
1758
|
Sir George Moore |
|
1780
|
John Taubman |
|
1799
|
Major John Taubman |
|
1823
|
Colonel Mark Wilkes FRS |
|
1831
|
General Alexander John Goldie |
|
1844
|
Colonel John Taubman Goldie-Taubman |
|
1847
|
John Moore |
|
1854
|
Edward Moore Gawne |
|
1867
|
Sir John Senhouse Goldie-Taubman JP |
|
1898
|
Arthur William Moore CVO MA JP |
|
1909
|
Dalrymple Maitland |
|
1919
|
John Robert Kerruish |
|
1919
|
Sir George Frederick Clucas CBE JP |
|
1937
|
Sir Joseph David Qualtrough CBE |
|
1960
|
Henry Knowles Corlett OBE CP |
|
1962
|
Sir Henry Charles Kerruish OBE CP |
|
1990
|
George Victor Harris Kneale CBE MA(hc) |
|
1991
|
James Crookall Cain FCA |
|
1996
|
Noel Quayle Cringle |
|
2000
|
John David Qualtrough Cannan |
|
2001
|
James Anthony Brown |