Death[edit]

Bligh's tomb, surmounted by an eternal flame, sits in the Sackler Garden at the Garden Museum.
Bligh died in Bond Street, London, on 7 December 1817 and was buried in a family plot at St.
Mary's, Lambeth (this church is now the Garden Museum). His tomb was notable for its use
of Coade stone (Lithodipyra), a compound of clay and other materials which was moulded in
imitation of carved stonework and fired in a kiln. This stoneware was produced by Eleanor Coade
at her factory in Lambeth. The tomb is topped by an eternal flame, not a breadfruit. [36] A plaque
marks Bligh's house, one block east of the Garden Museum at 100 Lambeth Road, near
the Imperial War Museum.
He was related to Admiral Sir Richard Rodney Bligh and Captain George Miller Bligh, and his
British and Australian descendants include Native Police Commandant John O'Connell
Bligh[37] and the former Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh.[38][39] He was also distantly related to
the architect and psychical researcher Frederick Bligh Bond.

In literature and film[edit]

Bligh is humorously portrayed in Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's short story "Frenchman's Creek" as a
competent but irascible and tactless surveyor sent to a small fishing village in Cornwall during
the Napoleonic Wars. His accent and strong language being misunderstood by the locals as
French, he is temporarily imprisoned as a spy.[40]
The situation in Sydney in 1810, with Bligh returning from Tasmania to be restored as governor,
is the setting of Naomi Novik's fantasy novel Tongues of Serpents (Harper-Collins, 2011).
On 16 December 1964, the "Adobe Dick" episode of the cartoon The Flintstones (episode 129)
paid a humorous homage to Cpt. Bligh and his ship. On the show, the characters Fred and
Barney took a chartered fishing trip with the guys from the lodge on the U.S.S. Bountystone. The
captain of the ship, Capt. Blah, was a domineering man with a uniform resembling the historical
figure, William Bligh.
Mutiny, on Channel 4 in the UK, charts a recreation of Bligh's journey to Timor. It aired in 2017.
Bligh has been portrayed in film by the following actors: