Deemster

The current Deemsters are: • First Deemster () and Clerk of the Rolls (), Andrew Corlett • Second Deemster (Y Nah Vriw), John Needham • Deemster Graeme Cook and • Judge of Appeal, Jeremy Storey There is now officially a "Third Deemster", replacing the previous "Deemster". ==List of Deemsters==

Owing to a lack of early records, the list cannot record any deemsters before 1408, and is therefore not necessarily complete for the earlier years. The dates given are those for the first appearance of a name in the records, although the person may have been in office for some time previously. The list has been compiled from the Liber Juramentorum (the book recording the oaths taken by officers on appointment), the Isle of Man Statutes with additional names from the archive of David Craine. ==First Deemsters==

==First Deemsters and Clerks of the Rolls==

• Stewart Stevenson Moore, 1916–1921 • Charles Cheslyn Callow, 1921–1934 • Reginald Douglas Farrant, 1934–1947 • William Percy Cowley, 1947–1958 • Sydney James Kneale, 1958–1969 • George Edgar Moore, 1969–1974 • Robert Kinley Eason, 1974–1980 • Arthur Christian Luft, 1980–1988 • John William Corrin, 1988–1998 • Thomas William Cain, 1998–2003 • Michael Kerruish, 2003–2010 • David Doyle 2010–2018 • Andrew Corlett, 2018–present ==Second Deemsters==

• Andrew Corlett, 2009–2011 • Alastair Montgomerie, 2011–2019 • Graeme Cook, 2020–present ==Deputy Deemsters==

• Andrew Williamson, 2002–2007 • Andrew Corlett, 2007–2009 ==In fiction==

One of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock 1929 drama film The Manxman is the deemster, and his holding this position is of central importance to the film's plot. The film is based on the 1894 novel of the same name by the Manx writer Hall Caine, who published another novel with a similar theme with the title The Deemster (1887). The 1953 George Bellairs crime novel "Half-Mast for the Deemster" features the murder of the Deemster. ==See also==