Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Butterworth Stavely is a fictional character in Mark Twain's 1879 story "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn." He is an American adventurer who instigates a coup d'état and has himself crowned Butterworth I, Emperor of Pitcairn's Island.Twain based his story on one sentence in a naval report by Admiral Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey: "One stranger, an American, has settled on the island – a doubtful acquisition," which probably referred to Peter Butler, a survivor of the 1875 Khandeish shipwreck. . }
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- Butterworth_Stavely comment "Butterworth Stavely is a fictional character in Mark Twain's 1879 story "The Great Revolution in Pitcairn." He is an American adventurer who instigates a coup d'état and has himself crowned Butterworth I, Emperor of Pitcairn's Island.Twain based his story on one sentence in a naval report by Admiral Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey: "One stranger, an American, has settled on the island – a doubtful acquisition," which probably referred to Peter Butler, a survivor of the 1875 Khandeish shipwreck. ".