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William's seafaring days started at the age of seven as Captain’s personal servant on board HMS Monmouth. He officially joined the Royal Navy in 1770. Within six years, he became Sailing Master on board HMS Resolution, commanded by Captain James Cook, and sailed with him on his third voyage until Cook's death in 1779.
In 1789 he commanded the "Bounty" on an intended voyage from Tahiti to the West Indies, until his strict leadership led to the infamous "Mutiny on the Bounty". On 28 April 1789, he was set adrift, in a 23ft boat with 18 loyal crew members, by Fletcher Christian and fellow mutineers. Bligh's skilled seamanship led them safely to Timor, Java 47 days later. While the mutineers sailed to the Pitcairn Islands, where they founded a colony.
Bligh was not just a skilled navigator, he was also a talented mathematician, writer, illustrator and studied science. He saw action at the battles of Dogger Bank (1781), in Gibraltar, with Lord Howe (1782), Camperdown (1797) and Captained HMS Glatton at the battle of Copenhagen (1801), for which he was commended for his bravery by Admiral Nelson
In 1805, Bligh became governer of New South Wales, Australia, but his unpopularity led to an uprising at Sydney in 1808, known as the Rum Rebellion. He was forcibly deposed when the British soldiers joined in the uprising and was imprisoned for two years.
On his return to England, he was completely exonerated and was made Vice Admiral of the Blue in 1814.
William Bligh appears in this family tree to show his relationship (1st cousin 4x removed) to Dr Reginald Cecil Bligh Wall (b.1869), who married Dorothy Innes Fripp.
For further details of his career click here
More details of his family and his complete service record can be found here
Information from Christine Dashwood:
William's Will, written 20 years before his death, mentions that they lived at Merrick Lodge, Kinning Hill, Berks and that Jane Sarah was still alive when it was proved in 1851, but gives no indication of any other family members. They are mentioned as husband and wife in 1824 on Christine's 3x great grandfathers Will. It is assumed that he was born around 1775-80.
It has yet to be confirmed that Hew was the son of Timothy Powell and Mary Steuart. The information from "Alumni Oxoniensis 1715 - 1886" at http://www.dyfedfhs.org.uk/alumnimr.htm does appear to show the above to be true.
POWELL Hew Steuart y s Timothy of Henbury co Gloucester arm. Trinity Coll. matric. 17 June 1828 aged 17 BA 1832 MA 1835.
Details of Hew's education from: http://www.dyfedfhs.org.uk/alumnimr.htm
POWELL Hew David Steuart s Hew of Blandford Forum Dorset arm. Exeter Coll. matric. 18 May 1869 aged 18 BA & MA 1876.
Hew was a well-known amateur pianist and a great player of chamber music. He was a good friend of the composer, Sir Edward Elgar, whom he knew from when Elgar played in small orchestras and ensembles in and around Worcester. Hew's initials are included in Elgar's 2nd Enigma Variation and his characteristic diatonic run over the keys, before beginning to play, is humorously travestied in the semiquaver passages of this variation; these should suggest a Toccata, but chromatic beyond H.D.S-P.'s liking.In the early years Hew was pianist in a trio with Elgar (violin) and Basil G. Nevinson (cello), whose initials are also included in Elgar's 12th Enigma variation.
He is reported to have attended an Elgar tribute in Welwyn Garden City in 1920.
(Family notes)
Felix served in the 1st World War and survived unhurt.EDUCATION:
B.Sc. at University College, London.OCCUPATION:
Engineer in England and America.