Description: Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (1853-1931) was an English novelist. Secretary to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, he lived with him from 1881 until the poet's death and wrote Recollections of Rossetti (1882). He moved his residence permanently to the Isle of Man in 1895 and was elected to the Manx House of Keys (the local legislature) in 1903. His enormously popular novels, some of Manx life, others on biblical themes, include "The Shadow of a Crime" (1885), "The Deemster" (1887), "The Manxman" (1894), "The Christian" (1897), "The Prodigal Son" (1904), and "The Master of Man" (1921). His novels, some of which were set in the Isle of Man, sold by the million, were made into plays and films, and were translated into many languages.

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