"Favorite Historical Eccentric (Final Round)" Topic

I suppose that Theodore Roosevelt could be called an eccentric. I prefer to think that he was just so far ahead of everyone around him it was the only label that even remotely fit :)

How was teddy an eccentric ? Besides the fact he named himself after a stuffed animal.
Or Murat? He was a dandy, that doesn't make him eccentric. It makes him a dandy.

Teddy did a few things which most people would call a bit eccentric. For example, while he was president he would often take groups of important people (congressmen, senators, foreign diplomats, etc.) on excursions up to Rock Creek Park and then strip naked and go swimming in the creek--and expect all of his guests to do the same. And this was in all weather, spring, summer, fall & winter. Often he would climb the rocky cliffs beside the creek (still naked). For him, this sort of physical activity was entirely natural, but the people he dragged out there with him, did find it a bit odd :)

But he was still one of the greats.

He sounds Finish

Honorable mention should always go to Marshal Blucher, if only for his delusions that he was pregnant with an elephant.

I always liked the stories about Jack Churchill, but I think that Lord Cochrane probably is the best I know of in the Anglosphere. Mind you, there were a fair number of fruitcakes in Victoria's forces. Flashman introduces a few.

I would mention Blucher but Piper909 beat me to it.

But I was wandering through AWI stuff and bumped off of a General Charles Lee. Pretty sure there's a Wiki on him somewhere. I think I'll take him

Ludwig II – someone who really understood the meaning of the phrase "a man can never have too many castles".