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Captain Peter Heywood (6 June 1772 – 10 February 1831) was a British Royal Navy officer who was on board HMS Bounty during the mutiny of 28 April 1789. He was later captured in Tahiti, tried and condemned to death as a mutineer, but subsequently pardoned. He resumed his naval career and eventually r
Heywood was born in Douglas on the Isle of Man on June 6, 1772, and was therefore fifteen years old when he was entered on the rolls of the Bounty.He was “of excellent lineage in the north of England” according to Lady Belcher (his later stepdaughter) and was recommended to Bligh by Dr. Richard Betham, Bligh’s father-in-law.
6 de nov. de 2023 · Art by Peter Heywood. Home. About me. Commissions. Current work. Past work. This website covers my creative adventures in inventing, designing and making works of art. It's as much about the process as the end result. It stretches back to stuff I made more than 50 years ago.
16 de ago. de 2023 · El capitán Peter Heywood, uno de los que dejaron a la deriva al capitán de la embarcación británica en medio del Pacífico, fue el único de los juzgados que se salvó de la horca. Luego viajó a Buenos Aires, donde se entrevistó con José de San Martín. Muchos años después, su esposa se convirtió en protectora de Mercedes, la hija del Libertador
14 de jun. de 2019 · Of the two men who received the king’s pardon, midshipman Peter Heywood benefited greatly from his influential family connections. Fletcher Christian’s family was also influential. Although unable to deny his role as the instigator of the mutiny aboard the Bounty , they worked hard to suggest that Bligh’s constant abuse of the officers and crew had ultimately driven Fletcher Christian to ...
Heywood became a captain in 1803, seeing much subsequent service in South America – where he also did important surveys – and the Mediterranean. In 1810, in the ‘Nereus’, he was entrusted with bringing Admiral Lord Collingwood’s body home from there for burial. In 1813 he was appointed to command the 'Montagu' in the North Sea and ...
Peter Heywood was still a captain for the Parliament and often attended strategic discussions in that role, but he was secretly passing intelligence on to the Royalists and causing ‘much mischief’. Parliamentarian Colonel John Rosworm claimed that as Prince Rupert led a Royalist army on Manchester in 1644, ...
