Execution Dock His remains were gibbeted by the river Thames at Tilbury for three years. George Davis and William Watts, convicted for piracy for the "Cyprus" mutiny, were the final hangings at the dock on 16 December 1830. Some sources state there is a large "E" on the Thames side of the building at Swan Wharf, indicating the site of Execution Dock. Another source states it was approximately where the London Overground station now stands. Execution Dock Execution Dock was a place in the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute
George Davis (editor) a hub of cultural activities in New York. Figures like Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden and Carson McCullers were live-in guests. A study of 7 Middagh Street, entitled "February House", was published in 2005. He died of a heart attack in Berlin, where he had been helping his wife, singer Lotte Lenya, make recordings. A literary satire of George Davis was written by Truman Capote in the form of the character "Boaty" in his unfinished work "". George Davis (editor) George Davis (February 4, 1906—November 25, 1957) was an American fiction editor and novelist. The youngest of five boys (the