Name
- Bickersteth, Robert, Bishop of Ripon1
- Caignart de Saulcy, Louis Félicien Joseph, archaeologist1
- Colonna, Florian Alexandre Joseph, Count Walewski, French diplomatist1
- Cooper, Anthony, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist and politician, 1801-18851
- Labouchere, Henry, Baron Taunton, politician, 1798-18691
- Raffles, Thomas, Congregational minister and hymnographer, 1788-18631
- Ramsay, William, Professor of Humanity at Glasgow1
- Ranke, Leopold, historian1
- Raumer, Friedrich Ludwig Georg, Historian1
- Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke, 1st Baronet, Assyriologist and diplomatist, 1810-18951
- Redding, Cyrus, journalist1
- Redgrave, Richard, RA; of Add MS 285121
- Reid, Mayne1
- Richardson, Charles, LL.D1
- Richardson,, John, KCB, MD, etc1
- Ritchie, Leitch, novelist1
- Roberts, David, RA1
- Robinson, George Frederick Samuel, 1st Marquess of Ripon, politician, 1827-19091
- Roebuck, John Arthur, politician, 1802-18791
- Rogers, Henry Darwin, LLD, Professor at Glasgow University1