Cyprus mutiny Cyprus mutiny The "Cyprus" mutiny took place in 1829 off the British penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). Convicts seized the brig and sailed her to Canton, China, where they scuttled her and claimed to be castaways from another vessel. On the way, "Cyprus" visited Japan during the height of the period of severe Japanese restrictions on the entry of foreigners, the first Australian ship to do so. The mutineers were eventually captured. Two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged at Execution Dock, London on 16 December 1830, the last men hanged for
George Russell Davis George Russell Davis George Russell Davis (December 13, 1861 – June 13, 1933) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court from 1897 until 1905. An attorney by trade, he was active in Republican politics and became a personal friend of William McKinley. Shortly after McKinley became President of the United States, Davis requested and received appointment to the Arizona bench. After his time as a judge in Arizona Territory, Davis moved to California where he worked as an attorney and served one term as a judge for the Superior Court of