This memorial is a memorial tablet in Kirk Maughold.
This rather simple rectangular brass tablet is affixed to the south interior wall of the church and is inscribed in black-lettering with the following dedication:
"IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
STEPHEN NATHANIEL HARRISON
CANON OF S. COLUMBA
B.A., JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
BORN AT MAUGHOLD VICARAGE 1836
ORDAINED IN 1862,HE CAME TO THE DHOON IN 1873,
AND, UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH IN RAMSEY IN 1925
FAITHFULLY AND GENEROUSLY SERVED THE
CHURCH IN THIS ISLE.
'O LORD TO WHOM THE SPIRITS LIVE
OF ALL THE FAITHFUL PASS'D AWAY,
UNTO THEIR PATH THAT BRIGHTNESS GIVE
WHICH SHINETH TO THE PERFECT DAY.'"
The quote at the foot of the tablet is from the first verse of "O Lord to whom the spirits live" by Richard Frederick Littledale
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That Stephen Nathaniel was incumbent of Christ Church, The Dhoon, Glen Mona and is record by the Census 1881 as residing at Dhoon Parsonage in Maughold with his wife, Mary Ann E (33) and their son Mark W (3).
Stephen’s wife Mary Ann E may be the same woman that has a tablet in Christ Church, The Dhoon, Glen Mona and died in 1886 (Marianne E Harrison).
Mark Wilks was in adult life also a clergyman and served as the vicar of St. Paul’s Church in Ramsey between 1911 and 1946.
Isabella Quillin (18) who later married Thomas Corteen was a domestic servant (cook) in the Parsonage at the time of the 1881 Census and is remembered in one of the stained-glass windows in Christ Church, The Dhoon, Glen Mona along with her husband.
Stephen Nathaniel also has a memorial plaque in Christ Church, The Dhoon, Glen Mona and St. Pauls Church in Ramsey.
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