Name
- Poynter, Edward John, 1st Baronet, PRA1
- Privy Council, The1
- Procter, Anne Benson, wife of B W Procter al 'Barry Cornwall' poet1
- Provis, Samuel Butler, KCB; Permanent Secretary, Local Government Board1
- Périer, Auguste Casimir Victor Laurent, French politician1
- Ramsay, John William, 13th Earl of Dalhousie, of Add MS 439111
- Richard, Henry, MP; of Add MS 439091
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, poet and painter, 1828-18821
- Rothschild, Ferdinand James de, Baron banker, 1839-18981
- Rouher, Eugène, French statesman1
- Russell, Charles, Baron Russell of Killowen1
- Russell, George William Erskine, PC, MP1
- Russell, Odo William Leopold, 1st Baron Ampthill, 1829-18841
- Russell, William Howard, Knight, journalist, 1820-19071
- Rye, William Brenchley, Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum1
- Sackville-West, Lionel Sackville, 2nd Baron Sackville 18881
- Sambourne, Edward Linley, cartoonist and illustrator, 1844-19101
- Sanderson, Thomas Henry, 1st Baron Sanderson, civil servant, 1841-19231
- Scharf, George, KCB, Director National Portrait Gallery1
- Seldon, Samuel, Customs officer1