William Bligh may well be the most maligned man in ... one of the greatest maritime achievements of all time. And we’ve got the hero and the villain completely mixed up. Tahiti, in October ...

As the world well knows, in the year 1789, Lt. William Bligh lost his ship Bounty at the hands of one Fletcher Christian and a handful of miscreants on a voyage back to England from Tahiti ...

A son Richard, by his first wife Lucy Shuter, attended Westminster School as a King's Scholar (he was a lawyer and author and married a daughter of Vice Admiral William Bligh (of the ship Bounty) and ...