The tomb of Captain William Bligh,who died 200 years ago, has become a central feature of the Garden Museum in London The inscription on the tomb hails “the celebrated navigator who first transplanted the breadfruit tree from Otaheite to the West Indies” – but makes no mention of the ship on which Captain William Bligh sailed into history when he provoked the mutiny on the Bounty.
The Garden Museum, and where Bligh has ended up as the surprising central feature of a courtyard garden overlooked by a cafe,expects pilgrims for this week’s bicentenary of Bligh’s death who absorb minimal interest in garden history. They will reach to visit the grave of a man many believe to absorb been cruelly caricatured and misrepresented in almost two centuries of ballads, plays and films as the brutal oppressor of Fletcher Christian and the freedom-seeking mutineers.
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Source: guardian.co.uk