after the revestment (when the rights of the lord of man were "placed in" or "vested" in the king of great britain) in 1765, the lieutenant governor and his officials were the agents of the british government, and not democratically responsible to the manx people. conflict between the house of keys (popularly elected after 1866) and the lieutenant governor came to a head when lord raglan was lieutenant governor between 1902 and 1918.