Ballot Archive

05 Dec 2019

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Matthew James Richardson

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA (Hons) (Leeds), MA (Leicester)

Profession or occupation

Curator of Social History, Manx National Heritage

Grounds for election

Curator of more than 10 major exhibitions relating to the social, sporting and military history of the Isle of man. Designer of the Mann at War Gallery at the Manx Museum. Historian of the island's involvement in two world wars. Author of books including This Terrible Ordeal and Tigers at Dunkirk. Compiler of a source book for researchers of Manx history. Authority on more than a century of motorcycle racing and the forthcoming TT and motor-sport gallery at the Museum.

Signatories

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