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Name
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The Archbishop's Irony
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Description
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In 1779, the Archbishop of York asked Manx people to contribute to the relief of Anglican clergy displaced by the American Revolution — the revolution provoked, in part, by the same fiscal overreach that had impoverished the Manx. The Bishop of Sodor and Man replied that his clergy's preferments and his congregations' circumstances could not afford such generosity. Forty-eight years later, Manx people were emigrating to the very republic the revolution had created, because the island the Archbishop had asked them to subsidise was no longer able to sustain them. The chapel that could not afford to help the displaced clergy was now itself being displaced.
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Date
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1779–1827
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Type
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Historical Irony
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Source
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Manuscript research; diocesan records
