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Benjamin Stanley Young (1851-1934), Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of the Pitcairn Islands
They are also challenging the applicability of British law to Pitcairn, saying that their ancestors had effectively renounced their British citizenship by committing an act of treason (the burning of the HMS Bounty), and that the islands were never lawfully incorporated into the British Empire.
She was appointed to the Mayoralty in an interim capacity by the Island Council, following her brother Steve Christian's dismissal by the colonial Governor, in the wake of his rape convictions on 30 October 2004.
The C.8W bought by Pitcairn would make the first autogiro flight in the United States at Willow Grove, Pennsylvania on December 18, 1928.
Coconut Chaos is both an investigation into the lives on Pitcairn Island of the HMS Bounty mutineers and their descendants, and a memoir of the author’s journey to Pitcairn.
The genus was named for both the ship HMS Bounty with which, following the famous mutiny, Europeans first discovered the Pitcairn Islands, and for the former bounty the bird provided as food; with the Greek phaps (wild pigeon).
The Routledges departed the island in August, 1915 returning home via Pitcairn and San Francisco.
That same year, Pitcairn, Pfeiffer, and others proceeded to establish the Lord's New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma, centered in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and The Hague, The Netherlands.
Matthew Edmond McCoy (1868–1929), Magistrate of the British Overseas Territory of Pitcairn Island, 1909
In August 2009 she was purchased by Nigle Jolly, of Stoney Creek Shipping Co. Ltd and is contracted out by the Pitcairn Islands Government for 4 scheduled trips out of New Zealand to deliver cargo supplies to Pitcairn Island and also carries passengers to and from Pitcairn Island out of Mangareva totaling 8 scheduled trips to and from the Island each year.
A Pitcairn PA-8 Super Mailwing formerly owned by Steve McQueen is currently in private hands with The Woodlands Toy Store of Pennsylvania, having been fully restored in silver and green, but it has flown in a number of airshows in the Northeast, including at Geneseo, New York.
On 8 November 2004, the Island Council named Christian's sister, Brenda, interim Mayor pending elections scheduled for 15 December 2004.
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Jay Warren (born July 1956) former magistrate of the Pitcairn Islands from 1990 to 1999, when his office was replaced by that of the mayor following a constitutional revision.
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The trial continued with the appearance of Jay Warren, 48, the former Magistrate of Pitcairn, and Terry Young, 45.
Following the Mutiny on the Bounty, the British mutineers stopped at Tahiti and took 18 Polynesian people, mostly women, to the remote island of Pitcairn and settled there with them.
Pilot Amelia Earhart landed at the field in 1931 in her Pitcairn Autogyro.
Richard Taylor Fell CVO (born 11 November 1948) was the British High Commissioner to New Zealand and the colonial Governor of the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands (of which only Pitcairn is inhabited) from 2001 to 2006.
When Andrew Carnegie left the railroad to start Carnegie Steel, Pitcairn replaced Carnegie as general agent and superintendent of the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania Railroad.He was also a friend and financial backer of George Westinghouse.
Thomas Hoving, former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, described meeting the Reverend Pitcairn in the course of negotiating the purchase of Garden at Sainte-Adresse by Claude Monet.
Thursday October Christian II (1820–1911), his son, magistrate of Pitcairn Island
On April 19, the day of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, when the courthouse bell announced the approach of Major Pitcairn's British troops, the Concord Minutemen assembled at Wright's Tavern.