some time previously. The list has been compiled from the Liber Juramentorum (the book recording the oaths taken by officers on appointment), the Isle of Man Statutes with additional names from the archive of David Craine. First Deemsters First Deemsters and Clerks of the Rolls Stewart Stevenson Moore, 1916–1921 Charles Cheslyn Callow, 1921–1934 Reginald Douglas Farrant, 1934–1947 William Percy Cowley, 1947–1958 Sydney James Kneale, 1958–1969 George Edgar Moore, 1969–1974 Robert Kinley Eason, 1974–1980 Arthur Christian Luft, 1980–1988 John William Corrin, 1988–1998 Thomas William Cain, 1998–2003 Michael Kerruish, 2003–2010 David Doyle 2010–2018 Andrew Corlett, 2018–present Second Deemsters Deemsters Andrew Corlett, 2009-2011 Alastair Montgomerie, 2011–2019 Graeme Cook, 2020-present Deputy Deemsters Andrew Williamson, 2002–2007 Andrew Corlett, 2007–2009 In fiction One of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock 1929 drama film The Manxman is the deemster, and his holding this position is of central importance to the film's plot. The film is based on the 1894 novel of the same name by the Manx writer Hall Caine, who published another novel with a similar theme with the title The Deemster (1887). The 1953 George Bellairs crime novel "Half-Mast for the Deemster" features the murder of the Deemster. See also Tynwald Clerk of the Rolls Manx Judiciary Moot hill: where there were deemsters (dempsters) References External links Isle of Man Courts Manx law Judiciary of the Isle of Man