William Bligh may well be the most maligned man in ... Bligh was lionised on his return. He died a vice-admiral after a chequered but eventful career. Some of the mutineers were caught, a few ...

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 ...