John Quayle
- Item sets
- People
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- Name
- John Quayle
- Biography
- Comptroller of customs and ubiquitous figure in the island's administrative records. Appears 78 times across the Manx Museum archive index — the most frequently named individual. As auditor on revenue abstracts from 1744 to 1762 and in House of Keys business, he represents the continuity of Manx administration through the crisis.
- Active Period
- fl. 1744 - 1780s
- Place
- Isle of Man
- Family / Group
- Quayle family
- Period
- The Atholl Lordship
- The Revestment (1765)
- Role / Office
- Comptroller of customs
- Auditor
- Book Chapter
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 14