Peter Heywood
Peter Heywood was a British naval officer who was on board HMS160Bounty during the mutiny ofApril 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 retired with the rank of postcaptain, afteryears of honourable service.
Peter Heywood was born in 1772 at The Nunnery, in Douglas, Isle of Man. He was the fifth of the 11160children of Peter John Heywood and his wife Elizabeth Spedding. The Heywood ancestry can be traced back to the 12th century a prominent forebear was Peter Powderplot Heywood, who arrested Guy Fawkes after the 1605 plot to blow up the English parliament. On his mothers side Peter was distantly related to Fletcher Christians family, which had been established on the Isle of Man for centuries. In 1773, when Peter was a year old, Peter John Heywood was forced by a financial crisis to sell The Nunnery and leave the island. The family lived for several years on the British mainland in Whitehaven before the fathers appointment as agent for the Duke of Atholls Manx properties brought them back to Douglas.
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