Name
- Reeve, Henry, Registrar of the Privy Council1
- Reid, George William, Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings British Museum1
- Rice, James, author1
- Richter, Jean Paul, writer on art1
- Robertson, John Forbes, art critic1
- Rossetti, Maria Francesca, author1
- Rossetti, William Michael, author and art critic1
- Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman, critic1
- Salter, Arthur Clavell, Justice of KB; 19171
- Salter, James, FRS; dental surgeon1
- Sandberg, Samuel Louis Graham, Tibetan scholar1
- Savile, John Horatio, Viscount Pollington; 5th Earl of Mexborough 18991
- Scott-Murray, Charles Robert Scott, formerly MP1
- Seager, Charles, orientalist1
- Seaton, Edward Cator, MD1
- Sedgwick, William, MRCS1
- Shedden-Ralston, William Ralston, of the British Museum1
- Shorter, Clement King, journalist and author1
- Slater, Edward Bentley, Reverend; Principal, Royal Naval School, Deptford1
- Smart, William Richard Edwin, KCB 1877; Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets1