Name

Crown Customs Establishment (post-Revestment)

Description

The revenue administration imposed after 1765. All Duke's revenue officers were dismissed on the day of transfer. Charles Lutwidge — of the Whitehaven family that had lobbied for the Revestment — was appointed Receiver-General. The 1792 Commissioners found the system 'in many of the fundamental and most essential Parts and Requisites, ill digested, incomplete, and unfit.' Ten specific failures catalogued. Former smugglers appointed as revenue men. The Riding Officers in 'Neglect and Disorder.' Lutwidge absent since 1786, sitting on £5,119 in unreported balances. Manx people were charged more for tea than consumers in Great Britain — the revenue measure that destroyed their economy made their goods more expensive than anyone else's in the King's dominions.

Active Period

1765–c.1866

Place

Douglas

Castletown

Peel

Ramsey

Type

Revenue

Customs

Crown Administration

Book Chapter

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14