Editing George Vancouver (section)

==Later life==
[[File:The caneing in Conduit Street. Dedicated to the flag officers of the British Navy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|In ''The Caneing in Conduit Street'' (1796), [[James Gillray]] caricatured [[Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford|Thomas Pitt]]'s street corner assault on Vancouver back in London]]

Impressed by the view from [[Richmond Hill, London|Richmond Hill]], Vancouver retired to [[Petersham, London|Petersham]], then in Surrey and part of modern London.<ref>{{cite web | title = Three Intrepid Explorers, Discovery Richmond | url = http://www.discoveryrichmond.com/three-intrepid-explorers | access-date = 30 January 2014 | ref = retire | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140228134747/http://www.discoveryrichmond.com/three-intrepid-explorers/ | archive-date = 28 February 2014 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

Vancouver faced difficulties when he returned home to England. The accomplished and politically well-connected [[naturalist]] [[Archibald Menzies]] complained that his servant had been pressed into service during a shipboard emergency; [[sailing master]] [[Joseph Whidbey]] had a competing claim for pay as expedition [[astronomer]]; and [[Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford]], whom Vancouver had disciplined for numerous infractions and eventually sent home in disgrace, proceeded to harass him publicly and privately.

Pitt's allies, including his cousin, Prime Minister [[William Pitt the Younger]], attacked Vancouver in the press. Thomas Pitt took a more direct approach; on 29 August 1796 he sent Vancouver a letter heaping many insults on the head of his former captain, and challenging him to a duel. Vancouver gravely replied that he was unable "in a private capacity to answer for his public conduct in his official duty," and offered instead to submit to formal examination by [[flag officer]]s. Pitt chose instead to stalk Vancouver, ultimately assaulting him on a London street corner. The terms of their subsequent legal dispute required both parties to keep the peace, but nothing stopped Vancouver's civilian brother [[Charles Vancouver|Charles]] from interposing and giving Pitt blow after blow until onlookers restrained the attacker. Charges and counter-charges flew in the press, with the wealthy Camelford faction having the greater firepower until Vancouver, ailing from his long naval service, died.