1359) Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804 – 1869). French literary critic.

Sainte-Beuve published collections of poems and the partly autobiographical novel Volupté in 1834. After several books of poetry and a couple of failed novels, Sainte-Beuve began to do literary research, of which the most important publication resulting is Port-Royal.

Port-Royal, probably Sainte-Beuve's masterpiece, is an exhaustive history of the Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal-des-Champs, near Paris. It not only influenced the historiography of religious belief, but also the philosophy of history and the history of esthetics.

He was made Senator in 1865, in which capacity he distinguished himself by his pleas for freedom of speech and of the press. According to Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, "Sainte-Beuve was a clever man with the temper of a turkey!"

 

- "... inheriting from his half-English mother his red hair and robust frame..." http://waltercosand.com/.../essaysbysaintebe00sain.pdf 

- "... his hair pale red, very abundant, and at once stiff and fine." https://archive.org/.../charlesaugustins00harpuoft_djvu.txt

 

 

1358) Charles Alexandre de Calonne

Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734 – 1802), titled Count of Hannonville in 1759. French statesman, best known for his involvement in the French Revolution.

Realizing that the Parlement of Paris would never agree to reform, Calonne handpicked an Assembly of Notables in 1787 to approve new taxes. When they refused, Calonne's reputation plummeted and he was forced to leave the country.

- "Necker was succeeded by as Director-General of Finance by Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, a cheerful, amiable red-haired man of forty-seven..." https://books.google.it/books?id=JiOoGto_W0kC&pg=PP45...

 

 

1357) Mary Helen Middleton

Mary Helen Middleton (née Hering, 1772 - 1850).

Daughter of Mary Inglis and British Army Captain Julines Hering.

In 1794 she married Henry Middleton, American planter and political leader from Charleston, South Carolina. He was the 43rd Governor of South Carolina. They had fourteen children. 

 

- "Both Mrs Middleton and Eliza also had red hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=Irdpl_VVe9UC&pg=PA455...

 

 

1356) Elizabeth Middleton Fisher

Elizabeth Middleton Fisher (1815 - 1890).

Daughter of Henry Middleton, planter and 43rd Governor of South Carolina. One of her siblings was Edward Middleton (1810 - 1883), U.S. Navy Rear Admiral most known for his service defending the United States Pacific borders during the Civil War.

In 1839 she married Joshua Francis Fisher, from whom she had six children. 

 

 

- "... she has no beauty and has red hair..." https://collected.jcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi...

 

- "Both Mrs Middleton and Eliza also had red hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=Irdpl_VVe9UC&pg=PA455...

 

 

1355) John Rogers

John Rogers (c. 1505 - 1555). English clergyman and Bible translator. First English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.

"Thus John Rogers, the martyr, had red hair, as appears from a painting of him now in Harvard College; and accordingly red or light hair and sandy whiskers will be found to prevail in his descendants in this country to the present day. So powerful was his constitution, that it stamped its own impress upon the great majority of his descendants. Compare the number of Rogerses who have more or less admixture of the red in the colour of their hair, with the community as a whole, and the force of this hereditary fact will be too apparent to be controverted."*

Works on Phrenology, Physiology, and Kindred Subjects by Orson Squire Fowler, 1873.

*At present we haven't ascertained if the above painting is the same as that referenced in the quote. Obviously in the above painting the hair looks somewhat dark, so we would guess that the reference is to another work.

1354) Agnes Baden-Powell

Agnes Smyth Baden-Powell (1858 – 1945). Younger sister of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell. She was most noted for her work in establishing the Girl Guide movement as a female counterpart to her older brother's Scouting Movement.

- "... Betty Clay... had pointed out that Agnes, like her brother, had red and not brwn hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=dXmoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT9...

 

 

 

1353) Robert Baden-Powell

Lieutenant General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857 – 1941). British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement. Baden-Powell authored the first editions of the seminal work Scouting for Boys, which was an inspiration for the Scout Movement.

 

- "ROBERT STEPHENSON SMYTH BADEN-POWELL was small and wiry and had receding red hair– an unlikely looking military hero." http://greatbritishnutters.blogspot.com/.../robert-baden...

 

- "He had a freckled face and red hair." http://1sttidworth.wiltshirescoutcentre.org.uk/.../Lord...