Capt bligh biography examples

William Bligh was an eighteenth century naval captain caught up in the Mutiny on the Bounty as well as later becoming Governor of New South Wales in Australia..

When and Where was he Born?

9th September 1754, St Tudy, Cornwall, England.

(possibly Plymouth Devon).

Family Background:

William Bligh came from a local Devon family.

Education:

Local Schools. He went to sea at the age of fifteen.

Timeline of William Bligh

1754:Bligh is baptised at St Andrew’s Church, Plymouth, the church where his parents had got married a year previously.

1770: He joins the Royal Navy as an Able Seaman on 27th July on the ship H.M.S.

Hunter.

1776-79: His first major appointment is on James Cook’s third and last voyage when he served as Master of HMS Resolution.

1781: On 4th February 1781 Bligh marries Elizabeth Betham, the daughter of a customs collector at Orchan Paris Church, near Douglas, Isle of Man.

He is promoted