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 Gronow-Davis William Gronow-Davis William Gronow-Davis (1941 – September 20, 2015) was the last partner of Michael Pitt-Rivers and inherited Rushmore Estate on his death. The Rushmore Estate had been in the Pitt-Rivers family for generations and was once described by novelist Thomas Hardy as "quite the prettiest sight I ever saw in my life." In 2009 Gronow-Davis built a 65ft folly, the tallest folly to be built in England in more than 100 years. Gronow-Davis was an established artist and held bi-annual exhibitions. Gronow-Davis and his partner Pitt-Rivers were both collectors of art, especially Asian works of art. At his death