1564) Paddy Graham

Paddy Graham (1932 - 2019). British boxer.

Born in County Down (Northern Ireland), he later lived in the Markets area and became a regular fixture at a time when thousands would attend weekly and monthly fights at the Ulster and Kings Hall.

His record saw him win 33 fights with 19 by knockout, as well as 19 losses with six by knockout and one draw.

 

- "A respected figure from a golden age of boxing, easily recognised for his bright red hair..." https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/tributes-to-fighter-who-was-part-of-the-golden-generation-of-belfast-boxing/38585785.html

 

 

1563) Mary Field Garner

Mary Field Garner (1836 – 1943). Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and a Mormon pioneer.

She was born in Stanley, County Durham, England, to William and Mary Harding Fieldm who were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints after hearing Wilford Woodruff speak as a missionary. They moved to the United States after their conversion in order to congregate with the main body of members of the church in Nauvoo, Illinois.

She married William Garner Jr. on November 1, 1856. William was a farmer and was called on a mission for the church in 1882. The couple had ten children.

Garner was an active member of the LDS Church throughout her life. She served as a Relief Society leader in her ward and participated in many other church activities. She continued to share her belief in the Church with others.

Even at an old age, she did not wear glasses and was in good health. She had only seen a doctor once in her life before her fall. At the time of her death, she was the oldest Utah resident and the eldest member of the church. She was also the last living acquaintance of Joseph Smith. She left behind over 600 lineal descendants, and four of her children were still living when she died.

 

- "She records that she had long red, curly hair." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Field_Garner

 

 

1562) William Kirkcaldy of Grange

Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange (c. 1520 – 1573). Scottish politician and soldier who fought for the Scottish Reformation. He ended his career holding Edinburgh castle on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots and was hanged at the conclusion of a long siege.

William's father, James Kirkcaldy of Grange (died 1556), was lord high treasurer of Scotland from 1537 to 1543 and a determined opponent of Cardinal Beaton, for whose murder in 1546 William and James were partly responsible.

William Kirkcaldy married Margaret Learmonth, a sister of Sir Patrick Learmonth of Dairsie and Provost of St Andrews, and George Learmonth of Balcomie.

 

Portrait by François Clouet

 

1561) Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline

Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline (1555–1622). Scottish lawyer, judge and politician. He served as Lord President of the Court of Session from 1598 to 1604, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1604 to 1622 and as a Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland.

He was the son of George Seton, 7th Lord Seton, and Isobell Hamilton. The Setons remained a Roman Catholic family after the Scottish Reformation of 1560, and continued to support Mary, Queen of Scots, after her abdication and exile in England.

 

Portrait by David Des Granges

Portrait by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

George Seton, his daughter Margaret and his sons, by Frans Pourbus the Elder (Alexander is the boy on the right)

 

1560) Richard Basehart

John Richard Basehart (1914 – 1984). American actor. He starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson in the television science-fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–68). He also portrayed Wilton Knight in the pilot episode of the TV series Knight Rider (1982), and provided the narration that was heard during the opening credits throughout the entire series.

Basehart was equally active in cinema, receiving National Board of Review Awards for his performances in Fourteen Hours (1951) and Moby Dick (1956). He was further nominated for a BAFTA Award for his role in Time Limit (1957), the only film directed by Karl Malden.

 

- "He ran his fingers through his brownish-red hair and down the back of his neck." http://www.vttbots.com/page5.html

 

- "I don't know if it was Richard's red hair and Robert's blond hair, but whatever the reason, these two were the hits of the evening." https://www.dutcherfh.com/.../3415935/view-a-story.php...

 

 

1559) Merula Salaman Guinness

Merula Silvia Salaman Guinness (1914 - 2000). English artist, playwright and actress.

She was the daughter of Major Michel Hewitt Salaman, of the Royal North Devon Hussars Yeomanry, and of Chattie Baldwin Wake, the daughter of Colonel Edward Baldwin Wake of the 21st Hussars (a descendant of Hereward the Wake). She trained as an actress and dancer, working at the Old Vic under the director Michel St Denis. It was in his production of Obey's Noah in 1935 that she met Alec Guinness. They became engaged and married in 1938. In 1940 their son Matthew was born. From the 1950s the family lived at Kettlebrook Meadows, near Steep Marsh in Hampshire. The house itself was designed by Merula's brother Eusty Salaman.

After the war, she took up painting and needlework, and wrote and illustrated several children's books. Sir Alec described his wife as "the most modest person imaginable".

In 1956, Guinness converted to the Roman Catholic Church. Merula, who was of paternal Sephardi Jewish descent, followed suit in 1957.

 

- "It was here that he met Merula Salaman, a gawky redhead from a posh family." https://www.theguardian.com/.../oct/19/biography.features1

 

- "... she was not tall and blonde, but short with fuzzy red hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=hyp2RoHMam0C&pg=PA88...

 

 

1558) Marius Goring

Marius Goring (1912 – 1998). English stage and screen actor. He is best remembered for the four films he made with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death and as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes. He is also known for playing the title role in the long-running TV drama series, The Expert. He regularly performed French and German roles, being fluent in both languages.

- "... and was frequently cast in the latter because of his name, coupled with his red-gold hair and blue eyes." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Goring

 

- "His blue eyes and red gold hair are just made for technicolour and we get to once again see him play the piano." https://www.mariusgoring.com/the-red-shoes-1948

 

 

1557) Anna Massey

Anna Raymond Massey (1937 – 2011). English film, television and stage actress. She won a BAFTA Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel Hotel du Lac, a role that one of her co-stars, Julia McKenzie, has said "could have been written for her". Massey is best known for her role as Babs Milligan in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film Frenzy.

She was the daughter of British actress Adrianne Allen and Canadian-born Hollywood actor Raymond Massey. Her brother Daniel Massey was also an actor. She was the niece of Vincent Massey, a Governor General of Canada, and her godfather was film director John Ford.

 

- "Upon the nanny's death in 1968, Massey had a nervous breakdown and her chestnut red hair turned white overnight." http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/491194/index.html

 

- "Anna Massey had dark red hair and large, expressive eyes." https://www.scotsman.com/.../obituary-anna-massey-actress...

 

 

1556) Guy Kibbee

Guy Bridges Kibbee (1882 – 1956). American stage and film actor.

His father was editor of the El Paso Herald-Post newspaper, and Kibbee learned how to set type at age 7. At the age of 14, he ran away to join a traveling show.

Kibbee began his entertainment career on Mississippi riverboats and became an actor in traveling stock companies.

In 1930, he made his debut on Broadway in the play Torch Song, which won acclaim in New York and attracted the interest of Hollywood. Shortly afterwards, Paramount Pictures signed Kibbee, and he moved to California. Kibbee's specialty was daft and jovial characters; he is perhaps best remembered for the films 42nd Street (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Captain Blood (1935), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), though he also played the expatriate inn owner in Joan Crawford's Rain (1932).

He is also remembered for his performance as Mr. Webb, editor of the Grover's Corners, New Hampshire newspaper, and father of Emily Webb in the film version of the classic Thornton Wilder play Our Town.

 

- "... sporting a a full mane of red hair and weighing under 200 pounds." https://hometownstohollywood.com/texas/guy-kibbee/

 

- "... under two hundred pounds with a full head of red hair back then..." https://immortalephemera.com/64132/guy-kibbee-biography/