The Tradescants are buried in an ornate tomb outside St Mary's Church, beneath the walls of Lambeth Palace, the home of the Archbishops of Canterbury. (Next to them lies Captain Bligh of the Bounty.) In the early 1970s, when the Nicholsons made a pilgrimage to the Tradescant tomb, they were horrified to find it in poor shape and the church destined for demolition.

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Jim Wolfensohn was a second-year student at the University of Sydney when a friend of his and the captain of the fencing team, Rupert Bligh, asked if he wanted to go to Melbourne the next day to fence in the national university championships.

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Ten years ago on March 24, 1989, 11.2 million gallons of oil spilt into Alaska's Prince William Sound after Captain Joseph Hazelwood skippered the Exxon Valdez onto Bligh Reef.

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