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Knight of the Red Wig

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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William Lyon Mackenzie, 1795-1861, leader of the radical Reformers responsible for the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada (a derogatory allusion to his red hair).

See: knight ,little Mac(k),Red Wig

Quotations

1831

We see by the Gore papers that the little Knight of the Red Wig is carrying on his mountebank capers in that neighbourhood . . . in conjunction with his saddlebag coadjutors the Ryersonians.