1632) Ebenezer Denny

Ebenezer Denny (1761 – 1822). Soldier during the American Revolutionary War whose journal is one of the most frequently quoted accounts of the surrender of the British at the siege of Yorktown.
He rejoined the army as a lieutenant in the First American Regiment[5] in August 1784, and was active in the Northwest Indian War.
In 1816 he became the first mayor of the city of Pittsburgh.

- "He had red hair and blue eyes." https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/drink-it-in-the-best-place-to-get-drunk-on-pittsburghs-history/

- "He is described at this time as “a slender, fair, blue-eyed, red-headed boy”. https://denneyhomeplace.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/remember-our-ancestors-ebenezer-denny/

- "He was a Revolutionary War hero with red hair and blue eyes..." https://positivelypittsburgh.com/mayors-of-pittsburgh/

 

1519) John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer

Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924 – 1992). British nobleman, military officer, and courtier. He was the father of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the maternal grandfather of William, Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.

In 1954 Spencer and Frances Ruth Roche, the younger daughter of the 4th Baron Fermoy, were married in Westminster Abbey. They had five children, but the marriage was not a happy one and, in 1967, Frances left John to be with Peter Shand Kydd, an heir to a wallpaper fortune in Australia, whom she had met the year before.

 

- "He was slim and tanned, his red hair slicked back to frame his high forehead and his well-define features." https://books.google.it/books?id=22M-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT15...

 

 

1415) Emily Howell Warner

Emily Howell Warner (1939 – 2020). American airline pilot and the first woman captain of a scheduled US airline.

In 1973, Warner was the first woman pilot to be hired by a scheduled US airline, since Helen Richey was hired as a co-pilot in 1934. In 1976 Warner was the first woman to become a US airline captain.

In addition to piloting, Warner was a flight school manager in Denver, Colorado. She was a flight instructor and FAA designated flight examiner holding multiple ratings.

 

- "And, if you couldn't tell by her red hair, fair skin and blue eyes, her name told you she was very Irish". https://fal-1.tripod.com/Emily_Howell_WarnerArt2001Mar.pdf

 

 

 

1403) George E. Pickett

George Edward Pickett (1825 – 1875). United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for being one of the commanders at Pickett's Charge, the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name.

Following the war, Pickett feared prosecution for his execution of deserters and temporarily fled to Canada. An old Army friend, Ulysses S. Grant, interceded on his behalf, and he returned to Virginia in 1866. He could not rejoin the Army, so he tried his hand at farming, then selling insurance. He died at age 50 in July 1875 from an "abscess of the liver".

Pickett made a colorful general. He rode a sleek black charger named "Old Black," and wore a small blue kepi-style cap, with buffed gloves over the sleeves of an immaculately tailored uniform that had a double row of gold buttons on the coat, and shiny gold spurs on his highly polished boots. He held an elegant riding crop whether mounted or walking. His moustache drooped gracefully beyond the corners of his mouth and then turned upward at the ends. His hair was the talk of the Army: "long ringlets flowed loosely over his shoulders, trimmed and highly perfumed, his beard likewise was curling and giving up the scent of Araby."

 

- "... his long, dark auburn hair floating backward in the wind..." https://themossback.tripod.com/soldiers/pickett.htm

 

- "... his jaunty cap raked well over his right ear, and his long auburn locks nicely dressed, hanging almost to his shoulders." http://www.civilwar.si.edu/leaders_pickett.html

 

- "He wore his hair so long that his auburn locks almost touched his shoulders..." https://books.google.it/books?id=3l4UEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT199...

 

- "Looking this way, with his auburn hair cascading in corkscrew ringlets..." https://books.google.it/books?id=Nj8k8yILKYEC&pg=PT588...

 

 

1381) Remember Baker

Remember Baker (1737 – 1775). American soldier and member of the Green Mountain Boys who was murdered in Quebec during the early days of the American Revolutionary War.

- "Remember Baker, Jr. was described by a cousin as a tough, redheaded, freckle-faced young giant." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember_Baker

 

- "He had red hair and freckles." https://www.familysearch.org/.../TH-904-68082.../dist.txt...

 

 

1380) John Barry

John Barry (1745 – 1803). Irish-American officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy. He has been credited as "The Father of the American Navy" (and shares that moniker with John Paul Jones, and John Adams) and was appointed a captain in the Continental Navy on December 7, 1775. He was the first captain placed in command of a U.S. warship commissioned for service under the Continental flag. 

After the war, he became the first commissioned U.S. naval officer, at the rank of commodore, receiving his commission from President George Washington in 1797.

- "He has blondish/red hair and blue eyes." https://www.morphyauctions.com/.../lot-806-unsigned.../

 

- "When we first meet John Barry he's 20 years old - 6 feet 4 inches - flaming red hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=wPc3EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT31...

 

 

1333) Samuel Hamilton Walker

Samuel Hamilton Walker (1817 – 1847). American army officer. He served as Texas Ranger captain and officer of the Republic of Texas and the United States armies. Walker served in several armed conflicts, including the American Indian Wars and the Mexican-American wars.
Walker is best known as the co-inventor of the famous Walker Colt revolver, along with arms manufacturer Samuel Colt. Walker is said to have self-funded a trip to New York City to meet with Colt and proposed to him the concept of a weapon based on the then-popular five-shot Colt Paterson revolver, with many enhancements such as adding a sixth round, being powerful enough to kill either a man or a horse with a single shot and quicker to reload.
Colt asked Walker to help him with the design and used his prototype and Walker's improvements to create a new design. Blake produced the first thousand-piece order, known as the Colt Walker. The company then received an order for an additional one thousand more. Colt's share of the profits was $10.
By 1847, the new revolver was available. The United States Army's mounted rifle companies were issued them, and they proved extremely effective.

- "He was slightly built, and beardless, with sandy reddish hair and an easygoing demeanor."  https://www.texasmonthly.com/…/two-sams-and-their-six-shoo…/

- "Born on February 24, 1817, in Toaping Castle, the red-headed, blue-eyed Walker lived only thirty-two years."  https://books.google.it/books…

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…

588) Herbert Oliver "Peter" Huntington-Whiteley

Capt. Herbert Oliver "Peter" Huntington-Whiteley (1920 - 1944). Grandson of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. He was a Captain in Ian Fleming's famed 30 Assault Unit during World War II.

- "Tall, red-haired Herbert Oliver Huntington-Whiteley, grandson of Stanley Baldwin..." https://books.google.it/books…

533) Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake (1540 – 1596). English sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer and explorer of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580, and was the first to complete the voyage as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation. With his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, he claimed what is now California for the English and inaugurated an era of conflict with the Spanish on the western coast of the Americas, an area that had previously been largely unexplored by western shipping.
Elizabeth I awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581 which he received on the Golden Hind in Deptford. As a Vice Admiral, he was second-in-command of the English fleet in the battle against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He died of dysentery in January 1596, after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico. Drake's exploits made him a hero to the English, but his privateering led the Spanish to brand him a pirate, known to them as El Draque. King Philip II allegedly offered a reward for his capture or death of 20,000 ducats, about £6 million (US$8 million) in modern currency.

- "Francis Drake was short of stature, with red hair and bright penetrating eyes. He was arrogant, self-confident, self-assured." https://books.google.it/books…

- "He had red hair and blue eyes." https://sites.google.com/a/fivestarschools.org/drake/

- "... a sturdy boy, rather under the average height, with bold bright eyes and reddish hair." http://redhairmyths.blogspot.com/…/elizabethan-redhead-sir-…

- "Short, red-haired, broad chested, Drake was energetic, vastly capable and notoriously intolerant."    https://books.google.it/

460) Ignacio Allende

Ignacio José de Allende y Unzaga (1769 – 1811), born Ignacio Allende y Unzaga. Captain of the Spanish Army in Mexico who came to sympathize with the Mexican independence movement. He attended the secret meetings organized by Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, where the possibility of an independent New Spain was discussed. He fought along with Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in the first stage of the struggle, eventually succeeding him in leadership of the rebellion. Allende was captured by Spanish colonial authorities while he was in Coahuila and executed for treason in Chihuahua.

- "He was tall and powerfully built, with curly red hair, robust whiskers, blue eyes and a prominent, slightly crooked nose." https://books.google.it/books…

                            Artist unknown, Ignacio Allende, 19th century, oil on canvas, Museo Nacional de Historia