Henry Callow


Henry Callow was a former Second Deemster in the Isle of Man.
He began his career as a Manx advocate and was then appointed High Bailiff in 1969. After 19 years in the post, he was made Second Deemster until retiring in 1993. He was the Provincial Grand Master of the Isle of Man Freemasons from 1983 to 1994. He was appointed CBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours.
He was the last judge anywhere in the British Isles to pass a sentence of death, although the sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment. Capital punishment in the Isle of Man was formally abolished by Tynwald in 1993.
Henry Callow died on 14 April 2006.