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 ...