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Knight of the Red Wig Obs. 
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 also: knight little Mac(k) Red Wig
- 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.
- 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.