Name
- Ponsonby, John Henry, banker1
- Potter, John, of Maidstone1
- Poulet, Henri, of the French President's secretariat1
- Powell, George Thompson, solicitor1
- Powlett, Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina, formerly Vane wife of Harry 4th Duke of Cleveland1
- Prestwich, Grace Anne McColl, widow of Sir J Prestwich1
- Priestley, William Overend, MP, physician1
- Prosser, W, of Pretoria1
- Pérez, Jean, Professor of Zoology at Bordeaux University1
- Quereau, Edmund C, Professor of Geology at Syracuse University1
- Rae, John, FRS, Arctic explorer1
- Railton, Henry John, of Maidstone1
- Rainey, George, of Boston Linc1
- Ralls, James, ironmonger of Bridport1
- Reade, Thomas Mellard, geologist1
- Reade, William Winwood, author1
- Reed, John William, pianoforte manufacturer1
- Reinke, Johannes, German botanist1
- Rendle, Alfred Barton, botanist1
- Renevier, Eugène, Swiss geologist1