Execution Dock His remains were gibbeted by the river Thames at Tilbury for three years. George Davis and William Watts, convicted for piracy for the "Cyprus" mutiny, were the final hangings at the dock on 16 December 1830. Some sources state there is a large "E" on the Thames side of the building at Swan Wharf, indicating the site of Execution Dock. Another source states it was approximately where the London Overground station now stands. Execution Dock Execution Dock was a place in the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute
William Conan Davis were raised to renovate the building, and it was reopened and dedicated as the William C. Davis Science Building in 2012. A portrait of William Davis, commissioned from Howard Rhoder, hangs in the science building. Davis has also been active in preserving the history of science. He has helped to establish the Ernest Stevenson Collection of scientific books and artifacts, to be housed at the Sutton Learning Center at St. Philip's College. He is working on his memoirs with the support of historian Jeanette Nyda Mendelssohn Passty. William Conan Davis William Conan Davis (born August 22, 1926) is a professor