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
George Roscoe Davis George Roscoe Davis George Roscoe Davis was a Washington, DC lawyer. In the late 1800s, he moved from Maine to Washington, DC to attend classes at George Washington University where in 1894 he became a charter member of the Columbian University chapter of Theta Delta Chi. That same year, George R. Davis was awarded both the Staughton Prize for excellence in the Latin language and literature and the Elton Prize for excellence in the Greek language and literature. In 1895 he also won the Ruggles Prize for Excellence in Mathematics and was the sole recipient of a Bachelor of Arts