Chapter 09 — The Gathering Storm
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- Book Chapters
- Name
- Chapter 09 — The Gathering Storm
- Description
- The forces closing in. The East India Company's commercial interests, the Whitehaven merchants' memorial, the customs intelligence, the parliamentary pressure. The constraint that made the purchase inevitable — not a conspiracy, but a convergence of interests in which the Manx people simply had the misfortune to be the target.
- Key Figures
- Ewan Christian of Lewaigue
- Thomas Wilson
- Malachy Postlethwayt
- James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
- Charles Lutwidge
- John Taubman
- Walter Lutwidge
- Thomas Lutwidge
- Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
- George Grenville
- John Quayle
- George III
- Lord Mansfield
- Duke of York