Joshua Hill (Pitcairn Island leader)

In 1832 he arrived on Pitcairn Island which was first inhabited in the 1790s by British mutineers from HMS Bounty and some Tahitians who joined them.

Hill, taking advantage of the instability, was able to be elected President of the island.

His rule became increasingly tyrannical, and he began imprisoning many of the island's inhabitants.

Hill was probably the basis for the character Butterworth Stavely in Mark Twain's short story The Great Revolution in Pitcairn.

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