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 Gronow-Davis in 2016 Gronow-Davis's art collection was auctioned off by Duke's. Gronow-Davis was the younger lover of Michael Pitt-Rivers, conservationist and owner of the Rushmore Estate, and moved to King John’s House, at Tollard Royal in Wiltshire in 1961. When Pitt-Rivers died in 1999, the Trust which runs the estate was inherited by Gronow-Davis, who vowed to continue his conservation work. At William Gronow-Davis' death on September 20, 2015, the Larmer Tree Gardens estate was valued £50 million. 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.