Every parent’s nightmare: the life and times of Illiam Dhone’s killer, Charles the eighth Earl of Derby

Saturday 25^th April, 11.00am at the Manx Museum Lecture Theatre

A talk by author and historian Derek Winterbottom. Derek says: “A lot is often known about William Christian (Illiam Dhone) and his execution on Hango Hill but a lot less is known about his effective killer, the 8th Earl of Derby, and why he was so determined that Christian should die. My talk will trace his early life and strained relations with his parents, his unauthorised escape from the family home in Castle Rushen, his marriage to a foreign woman of whom they disapproved, his failure to fight for his father’s Royalist cause and his bad relations with his mother and the restored King Charles II. Every parent’s nightmare!”

To book, email hannah@fmnh.im or phone 07624 243806.