 He returned in November 1791 and in 1800 he became governor of New South Wales.In 1803 he ordered the occupation of Van Diemen's Land as a convict settlement, there he founded Launceston named after the town of his birth.William Bligh – 4th Governor, most famous as the victim of the Mutiny on the Bounty, he was also unfortunate enough to be the victim of a "coup d'etat" at the hands of the infamous Rum Corps on 26 January 1808.