Cyprus mutiny and his last three companions arrived there. The mutineers were tried in London and two of them, George James Davis and William Watts, were hanged in that city at Execution Dock on 16 December 1830, the last men hanged for piracy in Britain. Swallow, and two others, were returned to Hobart, where another one named James Camm was hanged. Swallow died at the British maximum security facility of Port Arthur. The mutiny is the subject of the Australian folk song "Cyprus Brig". Simon Barnard’s book "Gaolbird: The True Story of William Swallow, Convict and Pirate", is a fictionalised account of
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