ice-Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator. He is best known as "Captain Bligh" for the infamous mutiny that occurred against his command aboard HMS Bounty, and the remarkable voyage he made to Timor, after being set adrift by the mutineers in the Bounty's launch. Many years after the Bounty mutiny, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, with a brief to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the NSW Corps.