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Legal Dispositions of Herm Island

Pre 6th C Within Roman province of Constantia
6th C. Breton Landlords under the Frankish Kings
933-940+ Passes to the Duke of Normandy and held by various Norman Seigneurs, Anschetel, Ranalf I, II & III and Mont St. Michel.
1204 Crown of England.  King John
1445-1737 Henry Duke of Warwick granted Lordship.  From then on Herm became a sporting reserve for Governors of Guernsey to 1737.
1670 Adv. P. Gosselin, introduced sheep
1717-1737 C. Nowall of London
1737-1815 In turn, Peter Carey I & II, Caroline Carey, Peter & Thomas de jersey, John de Jersey and Pierre Mauger
1815-1826 The Hon. Col J Lindsay
1830-1867 In turn, Jonathan Duncan, Ebenezer Fernie, Job Henry, Stephen Touzeau, Thomas Bartlett and Thomas Hyde
1867-1877 Col M J Fielden
1877-1881 In turn, James Considine, Arthur Maxwell.
1881 Trappist Monks (occupation not legally confirmed)
1882-1884 Chartreuse Monks
1884-1889 James Linklater or Leith. Projected fish factory
1889-1917 Gebherd Lebrecht, 3rd Prince Blucher von Wahlstatt
1917-1920 Wheadon & co. - Farming
1920-1923 Sir Compton Mackenzie
1923-1939 Sir Percival Perry, later Lord Perry
1940-1945 German Occupation
1946-1949 A G Jefferies
1949 - 2008 Peter and Jenny Wood, & Adrian and Pennie (nee Wood) Heyworth
2008 - John & Julia Singer, Island Managers for the Starboard Settlement