Cyprus mutiny the mutiny in which the mutineers are depicted as birds. 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,
William Mure (1830–1880) Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont. Together they had: Mure died on 9 November 1880. William Mure (1830–1880) William Mure, of Caldwell (9 May 1830 – 9 November 1880) was a British soldier and Liberal Party politician. He was the son of Laura Markham and William Mure (1799–1860), also a former MP for Renfrewshire. Mure was the nephew of David Mure. His mother was the second daughter of William Markham of Becca Hall, Yorkshire, and the granddaughter of William Markham (1719–1807) the Archbishop of York from 1776 to 1807. His sister, Emma Mure (1833–1911), who married Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale