During that tour a small terracotta urn was presented to England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women.

Bligh promised that on the tour to Australia in 1882 – 83, which he was to captain, he would regain " the ashes ".

The oldest, and the one to enjoy enduring fame, was the one presented to Bligh, later Lord Darnley, during the 1882 – 83 tour.

A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon.

In February 1883, just before the disputed Fourth Test, a velvet bag made by Mrs Ann Fletcher, the daughter of Joseph Hines Clarke and Marion Wright, both of Dublin, was given to Bligh to contain the urn.

The second Sydney match was subsequently deemed to not be of Test status, so England had won with the series and had " recovered The Ashes " as Bligh had set out to do.

A group of Melbourne women presented Bligh with a small urn and the Ashes tradition was then firmly established.

Vice Admiral William Bligh, FRS, RN ( 9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

Bligh was born in Tinten Manor in St Tudy near Bodmin, Cornwall, to Francis Bligh and his wife Jane.

In September 1771, Bligh was transferred to the Crescent and remained on the ship for three years.

In 1776, Bligh was selected by Captain James Cook for the position of sailing master on the Resolution and accompanied Cook in July 1776 on Cook's third and fatal voyage to the Pacific.

Bligh returned to England at the end of 1780 and was able to give details of Cook's last voyage.

Between 1783 and 1787, Bligh was a captain in the merchant service.

In 1787, Bligh was selected as commander of the Bounty.

Bligh was also appointed governor of New South Wales on Banks's recommendation.

The first known European contact was with Captain Bligh and the crew of the HMS Bounty when they discovered Aitutaki on April 11, 1789, prior to the infamous mutiny.

The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.

William Bligh, well known for his overthrow in the mutiny on the Bounty, was a naval officer and the fourth Governor of New South Wales.

When they arrived in Sydney, Bligh, backed up by statements from two of Short's officers, had Short stripped of the captaincy of the Porpoise – which he gave to his son-in-law – cancelled the land grant Short had been promised as payment for the voyage and shipped him back to England for court martial, at which Short was acquitted.

Soon after his arrival at Sydney, in August 1806, Bligh was given an address of welcome signed by Major Johnston for the military, by Richard Atkins for the civilian officers, and by John Macarthur for the free settlers.

Evatt concludes in his history of the Rebellion that ... " Bligh was authorised to prevent free importation, to preserve the trade under his entire control, to enforce all penalties against illegal import, and to establish regulations at his discretion for the sale of spirits ".

In October 1807 Major George Johnston wrote a formal letter of complaint to the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, stating that Bligh was abusive and interfering with the troops of the New South Wales Corps.

This petition was signed by the officers of the Corps and other prominent citizens but, according to Evatt, most signatures had probably been added only after Bligh was safely under house arrest.

The urn is erroneously believed by some to be the trophy of the Ashes series, but it has never been formally adopted as such and Bligh always considered it to be a personal gift.

Bligh received praise from Cook during what would be the latter's final voyage.

Bligh communicated his policy to the Colonial Office in 1807, with the advice that his policy would be met with resistance.

Bligh also upset some people by allowing a group of Irish convicts to be tried for revolt, by a court that included their accusers, and then when six out of the eight were acquitted, he kept them under arrest anyway.

On the morning of 26 January 1808 Bligh again ordered that Macarthur be arrested and also ordered the return of court papers, which were now in the hands of officers of the Corps.

Bligh summoned the officers to Government House to answer charges made by the judge and he informed Major Johnston that he considered the action of the officers of the Corps to be treasonable.

In June 1809 Jamison sailed to London to bolster his business interests and give evidence against Bligh in any legal prosecutions that might be brought against the mutineers.

In 2009, Anna Bligh led her party to a state election victory, thereby becoming the first Australian female to be popularly elected as a state premier.

She would be assisted by Leslie Mitchell and Jasmine Bligh, two of the BBC's three in-vision continuity announcers ( the other being Elizabeth Cowell ).

" In recognition of the important contribution General Cosgrove made to the community of North Queensland following Cyclone Larry ", on 11 October 2008, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh announced that the new residential suburb in the Bohle Plains area of Townsville will be named Cosgrove.

Plans to decommission mining were changed once again, when on 22 March 2011 the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh announced that the Enterprise Mine will now be forced to shut in 2019, eight years earlier than previously agreed.

England captain Ivo Bligh promised that on the tour to Australia in 1882 – 83 he would regain " the ashes " and the term began to be established.

The urn is commonly, but erroneously, believed to be the trophy of the Ashes series, but it has never been formally adopted as such and Bligh always considered it to be a personal gift.

It is exceptional for three Grade II * tombs ( Tradescant, Sealy and Bligh ) to be in a single small churchyard.

Bligh was firmly opposed to Macarthur's venture, according to Evatt, not because he objected to the fine wool industry, but because he believed that ' first preference should be given to agriculture '.

When a convict stowed away and escaped to Tahiti on the Parramatta, a ship Macarthur part-owned, Bligh demanded that the 900 pound Transport Board bond be forfeited.

Bligh was born in London, England and was the niece of Esme Ivo Bligh, the 9th Earl of Darnley, and also said by her biography at the National Portrait Gallery to be a descendant of Captain William Bligh, the commander famously usurped in the Mutiny on the Bounty in the 18th century.

In mid 2011, Premier Anna Bligh announced the plan would be incorporated into a statewide infrastructure plan called the Queensland Infrastructure Plan.

However, on 6 October 2010 Premier Anna Bligh announced that a portion of the park would be given over to the Wik-Mungkana peoples as freehold land.