1372) William John Napier

William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier, Baron Napier (1786 – 1834). British Royal Navy officer and trade envoy in China.

Napier was the first British representative to suggest seizing Hong Kong. In a dispatch to Lord Palmerston on 14 August 1834, he suggested a commercial treaty, backed by an armed force, be done to secure the rights and interests of European merchants in China. He recommended that a small British force "should take possession of the Island of Hongkong, in the eastern entrance of the Canton River, which is admirably adapted for every purpose".

 

- "He also had red hair, thus fulfilling the Chinese stereotype of the 'red-haired barbarian devil'". https://books.google.it/books?id=Db73DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76...

 

 

1065) William Henry Dudley Boyle

Admiral of the Fleet William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork, 12th Earl of Orrery (1873 – 1967). Royal Navy officer. He served as a junior officer on the China Station during the Boxer Rebellion and went on to serve in the First World War initially as a staff officer during the Dardanelles Campaign and as then commander of the Red Sea Patrol: in that capacity he led a six-day bombardment of the Turkish held port of Jeddah and worked closely with T. E. Lawrence in support of the Arab Revolt. In the inter-war years he was Commander-in-Chief, Reserve Fleet, President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich and Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet. After succeeding a cousin and becoming Earl of Cork in 1934, he became Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.
Boyle also served in the Second World War, first as head of planning for Operation Catherine, an abortive naval offensive in the Baltic Sea proposed by Winston Churchill which aimed to cut off the flow of iron ore from Sweden. He then became commander designate of a planned Anglo-French expedition to assist the Finns in the Winter War they were waging against a Soviet attack: this expedition was also called off. Finally he was given command of a naval force with a mission to retake the strategic port of Narvik in Norway from the Germans: although Narvik was briefly captured, all allied troops were eventually withdrawn.

- "The short, ramrod-straight Lord Cork was called Ginger Boyle for his fiery red hair and disposition."  https://prabook.com/web/william.boyle/3714316

- "She was escorted by Admiral William Boyle, President of the college, a short man with fiery red hair and a monocle."  https://books.google.it/books…

1019) Sir John Ross

Sir John Ross (1777 – 1856). British Royal Navy officer and Polar explorer.
In 1834 he received the Royal Geographical Society's Gold Medal for his discovery of Boothia Felix (in 1829 he became the first European in the Gulf of Boothia) and King William Land and for his famous sojourn of four winters in the Arctic.

- "In The Arctic Grail, Pierre Barton wrote, "This stocky, red-haired Scot … seemed the best choice for an Arctic adventure..."  https://biography.yourdictionary.com/sir-john-ross

973) Henry Keppel

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Keppel (1809 – 1904). Royal Navy officer.
As commanding officer of the corvette HMS Dido on the East Indies and China Station he was deployed in operations during the First Opium War and in operations against Borneo pirates. He later served as commander of the naval brigade besieging Sebastopol during the Crimean War. After becoming second-in-command of the East Indies and China Station, he commanded the British squadron in the action with Chinese pirates at the Battle of Fatshan Creek when he sank around 100 enemy war-junks. He subsequently took part in the capture of Canton during the Second Opium War.
Keppel went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa Station, then Commander-in-Chief, South East Coast of America Station, Commander-in-Chief, China Station and finally Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.

- "... James met a red-haired British naval captain named the Hon. Henry Keppel..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Keppel was known to the Dyaks as ‘The Red Devil’ on account of his red hair."  http://general-history.com/the-white-rajah-of-sarawak/

838) Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess of Maranhão, (1775 – 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831. British naval flag officer of the Royal Navy. He was a daring and successful captain of the Napoleonic Wars, leading Napoleon to nickname him Le Loup des Mers ('The Sea Wolf'). He was successful in virtually all his naval actions.
He was dismissed from the Royal Navy in 1814 following a controversial conviction for fraud on the Stock Exchange. He helped organise and lead the rebel navies of Chile and Brazil during their respective successful wars of independence through the 1820s. While in charge of the Chilean Navy, Cochrane also contributed to Peruvian Independence through the Freedom Expedition of Perú.
In 1832, he was pardoned by the Crown and reinstated in the Royal Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral of the Blue. After several more promotions, he died in 1860 with the rank of Admiral of the Red, and the honorary title of Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom.
His life and exploits inspired the naval fiction of 19th- and 20th-century novelists, particularly the figures of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's protagonist Jack Aubrey.

- "The youth was 6 foot 2, with a mop of distinctive red hair, dreamy yet penetrating blue eyes, a prominent hook nose..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "He must have been an amazing sight to his enemies, towering over six feet with red hair."  https://tarnmoor.com/tag/lord-cochrane/

- "The same qualities that made this 6'2" Scottish captain, with his shock of red hair and his outspoken opinions such an excellent commander proved to be something of a liability in the rarefied atmosphere of Westminster."  http://www.scottishessays.co.uk/lord-thomas-cochrane-rn--sc…

- "At age forty-eight his mop of red hair was still thick, but turning gray."  https://books.google.it/books…

200) Patricio Lynch

Patricio Lynch (1825 - 1886). Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and a Rear Admiral in the Chilean Navy, and one of the principal figures of the later stages of the War of the Pacific.

"He was called the "Red Prince" because of his red-hair."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricio_Lynch