Transfer Ceremony
- Item sets
- Events
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- Name
- Transfer Ceremony
- Description
- The formal transfer of sovereignty from the Duke of Atholl to the Crown. Crown officers took possession of Castle Rushen. The Duke's administration ended. The ceremony marked the moment when the custodianship — held by the Stanleys and then the Atholls for three and a half centuries — passed to a Crown that had no interest in the Island beyond stopping the trade.
- Date
- 11 July 1765
- Place
- Castle Rushen, Castletown
- People Involved
- Chapter 11
- Type
- Constitutional / Ceremonial