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| Name: | Rackett, Thomas (1757-1840) |
| Brief: | Clergyman and antiquary with interests in subjects as diverse as electricity and magnetism, gas lighting, perpetual motion, genealogy, heraldry, agriculture, botany, trigonometry, overseas trade, French politics, salt manufacture, and dry rot in ships |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 97 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 48 Upper Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1824-1841 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) |
| Brief: | Prolific painter and illustrator, especially children's books (Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm) |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Chalcot Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1903-1920 |
| Notes: | GLC blue plaque |
| Name: | Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) |
| Brief: | Prolific painter and illustrator, especially children's books (Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm) |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1904-1906 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) |
| Brief: | Prolific painter and illustrator, especially children's books (Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm) |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Wychcombe Studios, England's Lane |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901-1904 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rackham, Arthur (1867-1939) |
| Brief: | Prolific painter and illustrator, especially children's books (Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm) |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Primrose Hill Studios, Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1920,1934-1938 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rackstraw, Marjorie (1888-1981) |
| Brief: | Educationalist and social worker, Hampstead councillor, founder and chair of the Hampstead Old People's Housing Trust |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Keats Grove |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1938-1981 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Radcliffe, John (1650-1714) |
| Brief: | Royal physician to William III and Mary II, MP, his charitable trust is still active |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Bloomsbury Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1704-1714 |
| Notes: | Much altered or demolished |
| Name: | Radcliffe, John Netten (1826-1884) |
| Brief: | Epidemiologist and public health activist who traced a cholera outbreak to the East London River Company and enteric fever in Marylebone to milk from a particular herd of cows |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Regent's Park Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871-1884 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Radcliffe, John Netten (1826-1884) |
| Brief: | Epidemiologist and public health activist who traced a cholera outbreak to the East London River Company and enteric fever in Marylebone to milk from a particular herd of cows |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Guilford Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Radcliffe, John Netten (1826-1884) |
| Brief: | Epidemiologist and public health activist who traced a cholera outbreak to the East London River Company and enteric fever in Marylebone to milk from a particular herd of cows |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 70 Guilford Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1865-1870 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Radclyffe, Edward (1809-1863) |
| Brief: | Engraver remembered for his illustrations of Thomas Roscoe's The London & Birmingham railway |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Camden Street |
| Contemp. address: | 41 Camden Street |
| Resident: | 1860-1863 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Radclyffe, Edward (1809-1863) |
| Brief: | Engraver remembered for his illustrations of Thomas Roscoe's The London & Birmingham railway |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Gloucester Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1859 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Radclyffe, Edward (1809-1863) |
| Brief: | Engraver remembered for his illustrations of Thomas Roscoe's The London & Birmingham railway |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Mabledon Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Radford, Ernest William (1857-1919) |
| Brief: | Poet, critic and socialist, one of the organisers in the Arts and Crafts Movement and member of the Rhymers' Club |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Well Walk |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1914-1919 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Radford, Ernest William (1857-1919) |
| Brief: | Poet, critic and socialist, one of the organisers in the Arts and Crafts Movement and member of the Rhymers' Club |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10-11 Queen Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Radford, Ernest William (1857-1919) |
| Brief: | Poet, critic and socialist, one of the organisers in the Arts and Crafts Movement and member of the Rhymers' Club |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 East Heath Road |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Portland Villas |
| Resident: | 1901-1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Radice, Giles Heneage (1936-2022) |
| Brief: | Labour peer & former MP |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Gloucester Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1964-1971 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Radice, Giles Heneage (1936-2022) |
| Brief: | Labour peer & former MP |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 58A Dartmouth Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1991-2004 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Radice, Giles Heneage (1936-2022) |
| Brief: | Labour peer & former MP |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Dartmouth Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1983 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Raimbach, Abraham (1776-1843) |
| Brief: | Engraver who engraved some of Wilkie's best pictures |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Warren Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1808-1833 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Raisin, Catherine Alice (1855-1945) |
| Brief: | Geologist and activist for women's equality |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 154 Camden Street |
| Contemp. address: | 13 Camden Terrace |
| Resident: | 1855-1871 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ramsay, Sir William (1852-1916) |
| Brief: | Chemist who discovered the noble gases, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and many other awards and honours |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1904-1914 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Randall, Jack (1794-1828) |
| Brief: | Champion bare-knuckle boxer, nicknamed 'The Nonpareil' and 'The Prime Irish Lad', retired undefeated |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | off Tottenham Court Road |
| Contemp. address: | Cock Court |
| Resident: | 1794 |
| Notes: | Demolished, location uncertain |
| Name: | Randall, Richard William (1824-1906) |
| Brief: | Clergyman who became Dean of Chichester |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Bedford Way |
| Contemp. address: | 37 Upper Bedford Place |
| Resident: | 1824 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ranson, Thomas Fryer (1784-1828) |
| Brief: | Engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 94 Euston Road |
| Contemp. address: | 31 Judd Place West |
| Resident: | 1816 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rantzen, Dame Esther Louise (1940-2026) |
| Brief: | Journalist and television presenter, best known for 'That's Life!', founder of charity Childline, campaigner for assisted dying |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Westfield, Kidderpore Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2011-2021 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rantzen, Dame Esther Louise (1940-2026) |
| Brief: | Journalist and television presenter, best known for 'That's Life!', founder of charity Childline, campaigner for assisted dying |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 East Heath Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1996-2007 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ranyard [née White], Ellen Henrietta (1810-1879) |
| Brief: | Mission worker who founded the London Bible and Domestic Female Mission to assist the poor and distribute bibles |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Hunter Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1857-1879 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ranyard, Arthur Cowper (1845-1894) |
| Brief: | Astronomer, main author of the eclipse volume of the Royal Astronomical Society, co-founder of what became the London Mathematical Society |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Hunter Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1894 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Raven-Hill, Leonard (1867-1942) |
| Brief: | Illustrator and cartoonist, especially associated with Punch |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Adamson Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1899 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Raven-Hill, Leonard (1867-1942) |
| Brief: | Illustrator and cartoonist, especially associated with Punch |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 46, Bedford Court Mansions |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1929-1935 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ravenet, Simon François (1721-1774) |
| Brief: | Engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Opposite Mother Red Cap's, Hampstead Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1771 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Ravenstein, Ernst Georg (1834-1913) |
| Brief: | Geographer and cartographer who made good estimates of world population and established a theory of human migration |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Maitland Park Villas |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ravenstein, Ernst Georg (1834-1913) |
| Brief: | Geographer and cartographer who made good estimates of world population and established a theory of human migration |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Regent's Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | 25 Queen's Road |
| Resident: | 1864-1866 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rawle, Samuel (1775/6-1860) |
| Brief: | Topographical engraver and draughtsman |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Tottenham Street |
| Contemp. address: | 3 Tottenham Street |
| Resident: | 1801-1820 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rawle, Samuel (1775/6-1860) |
| Brief: | Topographical engraver and draughtsman |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Leverton Street |
| Contemp. address: | 19 Leverton Street |
| Resident: | 1860 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rawlinson, George (1812-1902) |
| Brief: | Scholar, historian and Christian theologian, best known for his translation of 'The History of Herodotus' |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 34 Tavistock Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1890-1895 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Raymond, Ernest (1888-1974) |
| Brief: | Novelist (Tell England) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 The Pryors, East Heath Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1941-1974 |
| Notes: | Hampstead Plaque Fund plaque |
| Name: | Raymond, Robert, first Baron Raymond (1673-1733) |
| Brief: | Judge and politician, said to have been admitted to Gray's Inn aged nine, held posts of attorney-general and lord chief justice |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Red Lion Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1729-1733 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rayner, Lionel Benjamin (1787-1855) |
| Brief: | Theatre manager and actor who usually played rustic types |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 68 Millman Street |
| Contemp. address: | 27 New Millman Street |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rayner, Lionel Benjamin (1787-1855) |
| Brief: | Theatre manager and actor who usually played rustic types |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 23 Acton Street |
| Contemp. address: | 17 Acton Street |
| Resident: | 1855 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rea [née Corbin], Felicity Marion Peel (Flick) (1938-2026) |
| Brief: | Liberal Democrat member of Camden Council for 35 years, "The Empress of West Hampstead" |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 84 Agamemnon Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1972-2024 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rea [née Corbin], Felicity Marion Peel (Flick) (1938-2026) |
| Brief: | Liberal Democrat member of Camden Council for 35 years, "The Empress of West Hampstead" |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 47 Compayne Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1964-1971 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rea, Russell (1846-1916) |
| Brief: | Ship owner and politician |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Lyndhurst Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1901 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rea, Russell (1846-1916) |
| Brief: | Ship owner and politician |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 60 Belsize Park Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Read, Ernest (1879-1965) |
| Brief: | Conductor, organist and music educator who founded one of the earliest youth orchestras in England |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 151 King Henry's Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1947-1965 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Read, John (1923-2011) |
| Brief: | Documentary film-maker for the BBC whose films on contemporary artists were highly influential |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Elaine Court, 123 Haverstock Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2011 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) |
| Brief: | Art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 The Mall Studios |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1933-1937 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reade, Arthur Essex Edgeworth (1902-1971) |
| Brief: | Labour movement activist, whose affiliations ranged from Trotskyism to the National Labour Organisation |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 The Gables, Vale of Health |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1926-1929 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rebecca, Biagio (1734/5-1808) |
| Brief: | Italian artist, active mainly as a decorative painter |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 48 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 22 Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1786-1797 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reckitt, Albert Leopold (1877-1947) |
| Brief: | Chemical manufacturer and benefactor, helped develop Dettol |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 40 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1922-1947 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reckitt, Eva Collet (1890-1976) |
| Brief: | Founder of the left-wing bookshop Collet's on Charing Cross Road, an heir to the Reckitt household products business |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 27 Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1955-1976 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reckitt, Eva Collet (1890-1976) |
| Brief: | Founder of the left-wing bookshop Collet's on Charing Cross Road, an heir to the Reckitt household products business |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 1, Isokon, Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1940-1945 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reckord, Barrington John [Barry] (1926-2011) |
| Brief: | Playwright, one of the earliest Caribbean writers to make a contribution to theatre in Britain |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 7 Elsworthy Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1962 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Redfern, David Reginald (1936-2014) |
| Brief: | Photographer specialising in musicians |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 117 West End Lane |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1962-1963 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Redfern, David Reginald (1936-2014) |
| Brief: | Photographer specialising in musicians |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Flat 2, 58-60 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1964-1965 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Redfern, James Frank (1837-1876) |
| Brief: | Sculptor best known for works incorporated into cathedrals and the Albert Memorial |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 115 Prince of Wales Road |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Roxburgh Terrace |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Redfern, James Frank (1837-1876) |
| Brief: | Sculptor best known for works incorporated into cathedrals and the Albert Memorial |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Constantine Road |
| Contemp. address: | Clifton House, South End Green |
| Resident: | 1876 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Redhouse, Sir James William (1811-1892) |
| Brief: | Lexicographer, author of the original and authoritative Ottoman - English dictionary |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Kilburn Priory |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Kilburn Priory |
| Resident: | 1871-1892 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Redpath, Leopold (1816-1891) |
| Brief: | Swindler who stole £220,000 from the Great Northern Railway Company |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Park Village West |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851-1853 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Redpath, Leopold (1816-1891) |
| Brief: | Swindler who stole £220,000 from the Great Northern Railway Company |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 27 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1855-1857 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Redwood, Theophilus (1806-1892) |
| Brief: | Pharmacist, one of the founding members of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Montague Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1847-1864 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reece, Robert (1838-1891) |
| Brief: | Playwright who wrote many successful musical burlesques, comic operas and farces, His adaptation of the operetta 'Les cloches de Corneville' became the longest-running piece of musical theatre up to that time |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Cantelowes Road |
| Contemp. address: | 10 Cantlowes Road |
| Resident: | 1887-1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reece, Robert (1838-1891) |
| Brief: | Playwright who wrote many successful musical burlesques, comic operas and farces, His adaptation of the operetta 'Les cloches de Corneville' became the longest-running piece of musical theatre up to that time |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Mornington Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reece, Robert (1838-1891) |
| Brief: | Playwright who wrote many successful musical burlesques, comic operas and farces, His adaptation of the operetta 'Les cloches de Corneville' became the longest-running piece of musical theatre up to that time |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Eton Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1874-1881 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reed, Joseph Charles (1822-1877) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter of landscapes and rustic scenes |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 78 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1877 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reed, Talbot Baines (1852-1893) |
| Brief: | Typefounder and writer of boys' fiction, best known for 'The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's'' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Hampstead Lane |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Grove Villa, Hampstead Lane |
| Resident: | 1891-1893 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rees, Abraham (1743-1825) |
| Brief: | Presbyterian minister and compiler of 'The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature' in 45 volumes |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 29 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1803-1807 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rees, George Owen (1813-1889) |
| Brief: | Physician, clinical chemistry pioneer who wrote on the analysis of the blood and urine, senior censor of the Royal College of Physicians |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 59 Guilford Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1838-1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reeves, Marian (1879-1961) |
| Brief: | Feminist activist, president of the Women's Freedom League, manager of the Minerva Residential Club |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28A Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | 56 Hunter Street |
| Resident: | 1925-1961 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rego, Maria Paula Figueiroa (1935-2022) |
| Brief: | Figurative painter and print maker, first artist-in-residence at the National Gallery in London |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 87 Albert Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1962-1976 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rego, Maria Paula Figueiroa (1935-2022) |
| Brief: | Figurative painter and print maker, first artist-in-residence at the National Gallery in London |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 The Pryors, East Heath Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1977-2022 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reid [née Sturch], Elizabeth (Elisabeth) Jesser (1789-1866) |
| Brief: | Philanthropist, slavery abolitionist and founder of Bedford College, London |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Grenville Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1821-1862 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reid, Flora Macdonald (1860-after 1939) |
| Brief: | Painter of genre scenes |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 62 Parkhill Road |
| Contemp. address: | 62 Park Road |
| Resident: | 1881-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reid, John (1776-1822) |
| Brief: | Physician, writer on medical matters, physician to the Finsbury Dispensary |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Grenville Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1806-1822 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reid, John Robertson (1851-1926) |
| Brief: | Painter, president of the Society of British Artists and the Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 62 Parkhill Road |
| Contemp. address: | 62 Park Road |
| Resident: | 1880-1926 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reinagle, George Philip (1804-1835) |
| Brief: | Marine painter who sketched the battle of Navarino |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 11 Randolph Street |
| Contemp. address: | 11 Great Randolph Street |
| Resident: | 1834-1835 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reinagle, George Philip (1804-1835) |
| Brief: | Marine painter who sketched the battle of Navarino |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 105 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 54 Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1822-1829 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reinagle, George Philip (1804-1835) |
| Brief: | Marine painter who sketched the battle of Navarino |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 109 Parkway |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Stanhope Terrace |
| Resident: | 1831-1833 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reinagle, Ramsay Richard (1775-1862) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits, landscapes, and panoramas, speculated in old masters and went bankrupt |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 105 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 54 Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1819-1832 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reinagle, Ramsay Richard (1775-1862) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits, landscapes, and panoramas, speculated in old masters and went bankrupt |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1833-1835 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reinagle, Ramsay Richard (1775-1862) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits, landscapes, and panoramas, speculated in old masters and went bankrupt |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Conway Street |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Upper Conway Street |
| Resident: | 1809-1817 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reinagle, Ramsay Richard (1775-1862) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits, landscapes, and panoramas, speculated in old masters and went bankrupt |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Bayley Street |
| Contemp. address: | 3 Bedford Street |
| Resident: | 1840-1841 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reinagle, Ramsay Richard (1775-1862) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits, landscapes, and panoramas, speculated in old masters and went bankrupt |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 58 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 29 Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1836-1837 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reinhold, Frederick Charles (1741-1815) |
| Brief: | Singer and organist |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Ossulston Street |
| Contemp. address: | Somers Town Terrace |
| Resident: | 1815 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain, demolished |
| Name: | Reisz, Karel (1926-2002) |
| Brief: | Film and theatre director, best known for 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', 'This Sporting Life' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 11 Chalcot Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1977-2002 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reisz, Karel (1926-2002) |
| Brief: | Film and theatre director, best known for 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', 'This Sporting Life' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 58 Fairhazel Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1949-1954 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reisz, Karel (1926-2002) |
| Brief: | Film and theatre director, best known for 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', 'This Sporting Life' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Gayton Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1959-1964 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reisz, Karel (1926-2002) |
| Brief: | Film and theatre director, best known for 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning', 'This Sporting Life' and 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 29B Canfield Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1955-1957 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reitlinger, Gerald Roberts (1900-1978) |
| Brief: | Art historian, collector of Japanese and Chinese porcelain and writer of books about Nazi Germany |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 33 Fitzjohn's Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1900-1908 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reizenstein, Franz Theodor (1911-1968) |
| Brief: | Composer and concert pianist, professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 34 Hollycroft Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1949-1968 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rejlander, Oscar Gustaf (1813-1875) |
| Brief: | Photographer and an expert in photomontage who collaborated with Charles Darwin on 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals' |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 129 Malden Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1864-1869 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Relph, Harry (1867-1928) |
| Brief: | Music hall comedian and dancer, stage name Little Tich, famous for his 'Big-Boot Dance', performed in 28 inch long boots |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flats 78-79, Bedford Court Mansions |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1907-1925 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Relph, Harry (1867-1928) |
| Brief: | Music hall comedian and dancer, stage name Little Tich, famous for his 'Big-Boot Dance', performed in 28 inch long boots |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 44, Bedford Court Mansions |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1904-1907 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Remond, Sarah Parker (1826-1894) |
| Brief: | Slavery abolition campaigner and obstetrician |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Grenville Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | ~1860 |
| Notes: | Demolished, Nubian Jak Community Trust plaque |
| Name: | Rendel, Alexander Meadows [Sandy] (1910-1991) |
| Brief: | Diplomat and journalist who served as a Special Operations Executive agent in Crete |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 51 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1910-1919, 1937-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rendel, Leila Margaret (1882-1969) |
| Brief: | Social worker, suffragist, and children's campaigner, co-founder of the Caldecott Community for distressed and vulnerable children |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rendel, Sir Alexander Meadows (1829-1918) |
| Brief: | Civil engineer, responsible for the Shadwell Basin, the Connaught Tunnel and the Royal Albert Dock in London |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1904-1916 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rendel, Sir Alexander Meadows (1829-1918) |
| Brief: | Civil engineer, responsible for the Shadwell Basin, the Connaught Tunnel and the Royal Albert Dock in London |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 51 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1918 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rennie, Eric Alexander [Michael] (1909-1971) |
| Brief: | Film, television and stage actor best remembered as space visitor Klaatu in 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Melia White House |
| Contemp. address: | 648 White House, Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1945 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reynolds, (Arthur) Graham (1914-2013) |
| Brief: | Art historian, Keeper of Paintings at the V&A, expert on portrait miniatures, wrote the catalogue raisonné for John Constable |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | The Logs Cottage, 22 Well Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1954-1966 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reynolds, Alfred (1907-1993) |
| Brief: | Hungarian poet and philosopher |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Lower Lodge, Branch Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1980-1993 |
| Notes: | Memorial plaque |
| Name: | Reynolds, Frederick (1764-1841) |
| Brief: | Playwright who composed nearly one hundred tragedies and comedies, now forgotten, best remembered for his autobiography |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 48 Warren Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1812-1841 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reynolds, George William MacArthur (1814-1879) |
| Brief: | Writer of lurid novels that outsold Dickens for a time, journalist who founded of Reynolds Weekly Newspaper, the leading radical newspaper of the post-Chartist era |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 41 Woburn Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1858-1879 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reynolds, Henry Revell (1745-1811) |
| Brief: | Physician to the Middlesex Hospital and St. Thomas's Hospital, Physician-in-ordinary to George III |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 42 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | 41 Bedford Square |
| Resident: | 1795-1811 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reynolds, James (1686-1739) |
| Brief: | Judge and politician, MP for Bury St Edmunds, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Red Lion Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1729-1734 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Reynolds, John Stuckey (1791-1874) |
| Brief: | Civil servant and promoter of teacher training, co-founder of the Home and Colonial School Society |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Cannon Place |
| Contemp. address: | 4 Cannon Villas |
| Resident: | 1861-1874 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723-1792) |
| Brief: | One of the major European painters of the C18, founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Lincoln's Inn Fields |
| Contemp. address: | Newman's Row |
| Resident: | 1741-1743 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Rhodes, Joan Louisa Ada (1921-2010) |
| Brief: | Variety and cabaret performer, wrestler, stuntwoman and strongwoman |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37A Belsize Park Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1946-2010 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rhodes, Richard (1765-1838) |
| Brief: | Engraver who produced chiefly small line-engravings for illustrated books |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 110 Arlington Road |
| Contemp. address: | 16 Grove Street |
| Resident: | 1819 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rhodes, Richard (1765-1838) |
| Brief: | Engraver who produced chiefly small line-engravings for illustrated books |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 86 Crowndale Road |
| Contemp. address: | 3 Gloucester Place |
| Resident: | 1838 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rhodes, William Barnes (1772-1826) |
| Brief: | Writer best known for his burlesque opera 'Bombastes Furioso' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Bayley Street |
| Contemp. address: | Bedford Street |
| Resident: | 1826 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Rhys, Ernest Percival (1859-1946) |
| Brief: | Writer, best known as the founding editor of the Everyman's Library |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Rose Cottage, Vale of Health |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1895-1898 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ribeiro, Lancelot [born Lanceloté José Belarmino Ribeiro] (1933-2010) |
| Brief: | Expressionist painter, best known for his experiments with PVA and oil paints |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://retracingribeiro.co.uk/assets/Retracing%20Ribeiro%20-%20The%20Artist's%20Torment.pdf |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 41 Belsize Park Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1965-1983 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ribeiro, Lancelot [born Lanceloté José Belarmino Ribeiro] (1933-2010) |
| Brief: | Expressionist painter, best known for his experiments with PVA and oil paints |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://retracingribeiro.co.uk/assets/Retracing%20Ribeiro%20-%20The%20Artist's%20Torment.pdf |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 214 Haverstock Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1986-2010 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ricardo, Sir Harry Ralph (1885-1974) |
| Brief: | Mechanical engineer, designer of internal combustion engines |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1885-1903 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Rich, John (1692-1761) |
| Brief: | Stage director and theatre manager who opened opened The New Theatre, Lincoln's Inn Fields and the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Southampton Place |
| Contemp. address: | Southampton Street |
| Resident: | ~1735 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Richards, Alfred Bate (1820-1876) |
| Brief: | Journalist and author, first editor of The Daily Telegraph, one of the leading advocates for the volunteer movement, precursor of the Territorial Army |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1875-1876 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richards, George (1767-1837) |
| Brief: | Clergyman and poet, treasurer of Charing Cross Hospital, governor of Christ's Hospital |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 19 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1837 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richards, Sir James Maude [Jim] (1907-1992) |
| Brief: | Architectural writer and critic, editor of the Architectural Review from 1937 to 1971 |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 122 Adelaide Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1936-1946 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richards, William Upton (1811-1873) |
| Brief: | Prominent Tractarian who, as vicar of All Saints, Margaret Street, commissioned William Butterfield to design the new chapel |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 St Andrew's Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1865-1873 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Richards, William Upton (1811-1873) |
| Brief: | Prominent Tractarian who, as vicar of All Saints, Margaret Street, commissioned William Butterfield to design the new chapel |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 157 Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1851-1863 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Richardson, Charles (1775-1865) |
| Brief: | Lexicographer whose 'Illustrations to English Philology' criticised Samuel Johnson's dictionary. He went on to publish his own 'A New Dictionary of the English Language' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12 Torrington Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851-1854 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richardson, Charles James (1806-1871) |
| Brief: | Architect, artist and writer, designed houses in South Kensington and Belsize Park |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Keppel Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1852-1854 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richardson, Dorothy Miller (1873-1957) |
| Brief: | Journalist and author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels, one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Woburn Walk |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Woburn Buildings |
| Resident: | 1905-1906 |
| Notes: | Marchmont Association plaque |
| Name: | Richardson, Dorothy Miller (1873-1957) |
| Brief: | Journalist and author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels, one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 7 Endsleigh Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1896-1907 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richardson, Henry Handel [real name Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson] (1870-1946) |
| Brief: | Novelist best known for 'The Getting of Wisdom' and 'The Fortunes of Richard Mahony' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 90 Regent's Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1910-1933 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richardson, Joanna Leah (1925-2008) |
| Brief: | Writer, translator and journalist who wrote 21 biographies of literary writers and poets and was awarded the Prix Goncourt |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 55 Flask Walk |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1964-2008 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Richardson, Joanna Leah (1925-2008) |
| Brief: | Writer, translator and journalist who wrote 21 biographies of literary writers and poets and was awarded the Prix Goncourt |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 3 Mount Vernon |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1960-1964 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Richardson, Jonathan, the elder (1667-1745) |
| Brief: | Painter, collector of drawings and writer. Considered by some to be one of the foremost painters of his time |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Lincoln's Inn Fields |
| Contemp. address: | Holborn Row |
| Resident: | 1703-1724 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Richardson, Jonathan, the elder (1667-1745) |
| Brief: | Painter, collector of drawings and writer. Considered by some to be one of the foremost painters of his time |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Queen Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1725-1745 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richardson, Sir John (1771-1841) |
| Brief: | Puisne judge of the court of common pleas and serjeant-at-law |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 43 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | 42 Bedford Square |
| Resident: | 1829-1841 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Richardson, Sir Ralph David (1902-1983) |
| Brief: | One of the leading actors of the 20th century on stage and film |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1969-1983 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Richardson, Sir Ralph David (1902-1983) |
| Brief: | One of the leading actors of the 20th century on stage and film |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Bernard Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1927-1932 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richardson, Sir Ralph David (1902-1983) |
| Brief: | One of the leading actors of the 20th century on stage and film |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Gloucester Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 17 Gloucester Road |
| Resident: | 1934-1935 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Richardson, William (1814-1899) |
| Brief: | Painter and architect, specialised in drawings of abbeys and ruins |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=4141 |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 13 Stratford Villas |
| Contemp. address: | Ebor Villa, 25 Stratford Place |
| Resident: | 1865-1891 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Richardson, William (1814-1899) |
| Brief: | Painter and architect, specialised in drawings of abbeys and ruins |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=4141 |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 14 Murray Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851-1856 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Richardson, William (1814-1899) |
| Brief: | Painter and architect, specialised in drawings of abbeys and ruins |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=4141 |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | ~6 Varndell Street |
| Contemp. address: | 38A Edward Street |
| Resident: | 1845-1848 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richardson, William (1814-1899) |
| Brief: | Painter and architect, specialised in drawings of abbeys and ruins |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=4141 |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 33 Harrington Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1849-1850 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Richardson, William (1814-1899) |
| Brief: | Painter and architect, specialised in drawings of abbeys and ruins |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=4141 |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 155 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 79 Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1844 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ridley, (William) Arnold (1896-1984) |
| Brief: | Playwright and actor, best known for 'The Ghost Train' and playing Private Godfrey in 'Dad's Army' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 Brookfield Mansions, Highgate West Hill |
| Contemp. address: | 30 Brookfield Mansions, West Hill |
| Resident: | 1962-1965 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ridley, John (1806-1887) |
| Brief: | Inventor, landowner, farming machinery manufacturer, farmer and preacher who invented a harvesting machine (The Ridley stripper) that found some success in Australia |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 19 Belsize Park |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1865-1887 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ridley, John (1806-1887) |
| Brief: | Inventor, landowner, farming machinery manufacturer, farmer and preacher who invented a harvesting machine (The Ridley stripper) that found some success in Australia |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 59 Torrington Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ridley, Walter John [Wally] (1913-2007) |
| Brief: | Record producer and songwriter who produced hit records by Alma Cogan, Max Bygraves and Ronnie Hilton |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Medburn Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1913-1918 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rieser, Dolf (1898-1983) |
| Brief: | Painter and print maker who pioneered printing on translucent fibre-glass panels and laminates |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://dolfrieser.com/biography/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Greville Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1949-1961 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rieser, Dolf (1898-1983) |
| Brief: | Painter and print maker who pioneered printing on translucent fibre-glass panels and laminates |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://dolfrieser.com/biography/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 98 Sumatra Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1962-1983 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rieu, Charles Pierre Henri (1820-1902) |
| Brief: | Oriental scholar, Professor of Arabic in London and Cambridge, keeper of oriental manuscripts at the British Museum |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28 Woburn Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871-1902 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rieu, Charles Pierre Henri (1820-1902) |
| Brief: | Oriental scholar, Professor of Arabic in London and Cambridge, keeper of oriental manuscripts at the British Museum |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 261 Stanhope Street |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Stanhope Place |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rieu, Charles Pierre Henri (1820-1902) |
| Brief: | Oriental scholar, Professor of Arabic in London and Cambridge, keeper of oriental manuscripts at the British Museum |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Camden Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | 5 Moccas Cottages, Camden Terrace West |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rigaud, Stephen Francis Dutilh (1777-1861) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter whose subjects were sacred, classical, or drawn from John Milton, Ossian, and other poets |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Maple Street |
| Contemp. address: | 48 London Street |
| Resident: | 1808 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rigaud, Stephen Francis Dutilh (1777-1861) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter whose subjects were sacred, classical, or drawn from John Milton, Ossian, and other poets |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 53 Huntley Street |
| Contemp. address: | 19 Upper Thornhaugh Street |
| Resident: | 1810-1817 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rigaud, Stephen Francis Dutilh (1777-1861) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter whose subjects were sacred, classical, or drawn from John Milton, Ossian, and other poets |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Duke's Road |
| Contemp. address: | 9 Woburn Buildings |
| Resident: | 1839 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Riley, John (1646-1691) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter, court painter to William III and Mary II |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Lincoln's Inn Fields |
| Contemp. address: | Holborn Row |
| Resident: | 1691 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Rimbaud, Jean Nicolas Arthur (1854-1891) |
| Brief: | Poet who enjoyed a bohemian lifestyle |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Royal College Street |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Great College Street |
| Resident: | 1873 |
| Notes: | Memorial plaque |
| Name: | Rimbaud, Jean Nicolas Arthur (1854-1891) |
| Brief: | Poet who enjoyed a bohemian lifestyle |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 46 Howland Street |
| Contemp. address: | 34 Howland Street |
| Resident: | 1872 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rimbault, Edward Francis (1816-1876) |
| Brief: | Organist, musicologist, book collector and author who edited many collections of music and assembled a magnificent library |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 29 St Mark's Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1871-1876 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rimbault, Edward Francis (1816-1876) |
| Brief: | Organist, musicologist, book collector and author who edited many collections of music and assembled a magnificent library |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Denmark Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1816-1841 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Riollay, Francis William (~1748-1797) |
| Brief: | Physician, the first to suggest that gout is a disease of the nervous system |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 17 Bloomsbury Way |
| Contemp. address: | 17 Hart Street |
| Resident: | 1790 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Riss, Egon (1901-1964) |
| Brief: | Best known for his modernist furniture, such as the Penguin Donkey, the small bookcase he designed for Isokon |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 31, Isokon, Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ritchie [née Thackeray], Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie (1837-1919) |
| Brief: | Novelist, now little known but once central to the late-Victorian literary scene |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Cannon Place |
| Contemp. address: | 1 Heathfield Gardens |
| Resident: | 1887 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ritson, Joseph (1752-1803) |
| Brief: | Antiquary who attempted to collect all the 'historical or poetical remains' concerning Robin Hood |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | South Square, Gray's Inn |
| Contemp. address: | 8 Holborn Court |
| Resident: | 1780-1803 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Riviere, Briton (1840-1920) |
| Brief: | Painter who specialised in animal subjects |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flaxley, 82 Finchley Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1880-1920 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Riviere, Henry Parsons (1811-1888) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter of sentimental genre scenes and views of Rome |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | 9 Russell Place |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Riviere, Henry Parsons (1811-1888) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter of sentimental genre scenes and views of Rome |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 80 Charlotte Street |
| Contemp. address: | 36b Charlotte Street |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Riviere, Henry Parsons (1811-1888) |
| Brief: | Watercolour painter of sentimental genre scenes and views of Rome |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Maple Street |
| Contemp. address: | 50 London Street |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Riviere, Hugh Goldwin (1869-1956) |
| Brief: | Painter, mostly portraits, but see 'The Garden of Eden' in the Guildhall Gallery |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flaxley, 82 Finchley Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1881-1897 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Riviere, Robert (1808-1882) |
| Brief: | Bookbinder who worked for the royal family, the Duke of Devonshire, and many great collectors. He restored and bound the Domesday Book |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28 Great Queen Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1840-1851 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Riviere, Robert (1808-1882) |
| Brief: | Bookbinder who worked for the royal family, the Duke of Devonshire, and many great collectors. He restored and bound the Domesday Book |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | ~9 Camden Road |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Bayham Cottages |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Riviere, Robert (1808-1882) |
| Brief: | Bookbinder who worked for the royal family, the Duke of Devonshire, and many great collectors. He restored and bound the Domesday Book |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 47 Gloucester Avenue |
| Contemp. address: | 47 Gloucester Road |
| Resident: | 1876-1882 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rivington, Francis (1805-1885) |
| Brief: | Publisher, member of one of the most important book-trade dynasties in England, supporter of the Oxford Movement |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivington_(publishers) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 82 Highgate West Hill |
| Contemp. address: | Hollyside, 49 West Hill |
| Resident: | 1842-1848 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rizal, José (1861-1896) |
| Brief: | Writer and national hero of the Philippines |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Chalcot Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1888-1889 |
| Notes: | GLC blue plaque |
| Name: | Robb [née Anne], Barbara (1912 -1976) |
| Brief: | Psychotherapist, founder of AEGIS (Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions) and author of 'Sans Everything: A Case to Answer' |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Hampstead Grove |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1976 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robb, Brian Fletcher (1913-1979) |
| Brief: | Painter, illustrator and cartoonist, head of illustration at the Royal College of Art |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Hampstead Grove |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1946-1979 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Roberts, David (1796-1864) |
| Brief: | Painter best known for his pictures of The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 43 Howland Street |
| Contemp. address: | 22 Howland Street |
| Resident: | 1833-1839 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Roberts, David (1796-1864) |
| Brief: | Painter best known for his pictures of The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | 7 Fitzroy Street |
| Resident: | 1839-1864 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Roberts, William Patrick (1895-1980) |
| Brief: | Painter who was an early proponent of abstract images and an official war artist in WW1 |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 St Mark's Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1946-1980 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Roberts, William Patrick (1895-1980) |
| Brief: | Painter who was an early proponent of abstract images and an official war artist in WW1 |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1916 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Roberts, William Patrick (1895-1980) |
| Brief: | Painter who was an early proponent of abstract images and an official war artist in WW1 |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1923-1925 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robertson, Eileen Arbuthnot (1903-1961) |
| Brief: | Novelist, critic and broadcaster who wrote under the pen name E. Arnot Robertson |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 96 Heath Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1936-1946 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robertson, Eileen Arbuthnot (1903-1961) |
| Brief: | Novelist, critic and broadcaster who wrote under the pen name E. Arnot Robertson |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 98 Heath Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1953-1961 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robertson, John George (1867-1933) |
| Brief: | Philologist and professor of German language and literature. His 'History of German Literature' was regarded as the standard authority on the subject. |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 90 Regent's Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1910-1933 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robertson, Sir Robert (1869-1949) |
| Brief: | Chemist, explosives expert, served as Chief Government Chemist and President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 51, Bedford Court Mansions |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1936-1949 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robertson, Thomas William (1829-1871) |
| Brief: | Dramatist and stage director whose comedy 'Society' ran for 150 performances |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Eton Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1867-1871 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robeson, Paul Leroy (1898-1976) |
| Brief: | Actor, singer, and political activist |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 The Chestnuts, Branch Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1929-1930 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Robeson, Paul Leroy (1898-1976) |
| Brief: | Actor, singer, and political activist |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 St Alban's Villas, Highgate Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1938-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robey, Sir George [real name George Edward Wade] (1869-1954) |
| Brief: | Music hall comedian, singer and actor, 'the Prime Minister of Mirth' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 83 Finchley Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1905-1907 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robey, Sir George [real name George Edward Wade] (1869-1954) |
| Brief: | Music hall comedian, singer and actor, 'the Prime Minister of Mirth' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 70 Finchley Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1907-1919 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robinson [née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1756/1758?-1800) |
| Brief: | Author and actress, mistress of the Prince of Wales (the future George IV), frequently caricatured and painted |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Hatton Garden |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1774 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robinson [née Darby], Mary [Perdita] (1756/1758?-1800) |
| Brief: | Author and actress, mistress of the Prince of Wales (the future George IV), frequently caricatured and painted |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 61 Great Queen Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1774 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robinson [née Walker], Isabella Hamilton (1813-1887) |
| Brief: | Diarist and one of the first women subjected to the new divorce laws of 1858 |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, Kate Summerscale, 2012 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 238 Camden Road |
| Contemp. address: | 78 Camden Road Villas |
| Resident: | 1845 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robinson [née Walker], Isabella Hamilton (1813-1887) |
| Brief: | Diarist and one of the first women subjected to the new divorce laws of 1858 |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, Kate Summerscale, 2012 |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Brunswick Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1813 |
| Notes: | Demolished, location uncertain |
| Name: | Robinson, Anthony (1762-1827) |
| Brief: | Unitarian minister, writer, plantation owner and sugar refiner |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 35 Hatton Garden |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1814-1827 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robinson, George Richard (1781-1850) |
| Brief: | Politician, MP for Worcester, Chairman of Lloyd's of London |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 27 Chester Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1836-1850 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robinson, Henry Crabb (1775-1867) |
| Brief: | Lawyer, journalist and diarist who participated in the founding of University College London |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1839-1867 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robinson, James (1813-1862) |
| Brief: | Dentist and pioneer anaesthetist, author and founder of the British Quarterly Journal of Dental Surgery |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 7 Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1841-1862 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Robinson, Jethro Thomas (1829-1878) |
| Brief: | Architect who specialised in theatre design |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 103 Haverstock Hill |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Monk's Barn Villas |
| Resident: | 1871 |
| Notes: | Demolished, AKA Monkbarns Villas |
| Name: | Robinson, Jethro Thomas (1829-1878) |
| Brief: | Architect who specialised in theatre design |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 20 Bloomsbury Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1878 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robinson, Joan Mary Gale [née Thomas] (1910-1988) |
| Brief: | Author and illustrator of children's books, creator of Teddy Robinson |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 39 South Hill Park |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1948-1988 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robinson, John Henry (1796-1871) |
| Brief: | Eminent engraver |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 167 North Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 2 George Street |
| Resident: | 1824 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robinson, Sir (Edward) Stanley Gotch (1887-1976) |
| Brief: | Numismatist, specializing in Greek and Roman coins. Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum and a generous donor |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 89 Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1976 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robinson, Sir Kenneth (1911-1996) |
| Brief: | Politician on St Pancras council and the Labour Government where he was Minister of Health, chairman of the London Transport executive |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 12 Grove Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1964-1993 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Robson [Brownbill], (Thomas) Frederick (1821-1864) |
| Brief: | Comedian, actor and ballad singer who excelled in farce and burlesque |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Ampthill Square Estate |
| Contemp. address: | 19 Ampthill Square |
| Resident: | 1861-1864 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robson, Dame Flora (1902-1984) |
| Brief: | Actress who played leading roles on stage, film and TV |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1936-1937 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Robson, Dame Flora (1902-1984) |
| Brief: | Actress who played leading roles on stage, film and TV |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Downshire Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1938-1940 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Roc, Patricia (born Felicia Miriam Ursula Herold) (1915-2003) |
| Brief: | Film actress, popular in the Gainsborough melodramas such as 'The Wicked Lady' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 75 Lissenden Mansions, Lissenden Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1915 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Roc, Patricia (born Felicia Miriam Ursula Herold) (1915-2003) |
| Brief: | Film actress, popular in the Gainsborough melodramas such as 'The Wicked Lady' |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Athenaeum Hall, Vale of Health |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1965-1966 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rodd, Francis James Rennell, second Baron Rennell (1895-1978) |
| Brief: | Soldier, diplomat, merchant banker and geographer, president of the Royal Geographical Society |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 24 Park Square East |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1929-1933 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rodgers, William Robert (1909-1969) |
| Brief: | Poet and broadcaster remembered for his radio series 'Irish literary portraits' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 36 Mecklenburgh Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1950-1952 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Roe, Alfred Frederic [Fred] (1864-1947) |
| Brief: | Genre artist and illustrator, best known for his paintings of landscapes, portraits and military scenes |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 104 Priory Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1898-1902 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Roe, Alfred Frederic [Fred] (1864-1947) |
| Brief: | Genre artist and illustrator, best known for his paintings of landscapes, portraits and military scenes |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Parkhill Road |
| Contemp. address: | 7 Park Road Studios |
| Resident: | 1887-1888 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rogers, Claude Maurice (1907-1979) |
| Brief: | Painter of portraits and landscapes, art teacher, a founding member of the Euston Road School |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Taviton Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1945-1965 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rogers, Richard George, Baron Rogers of Riverside (1933-2021) |
| Brief: | Architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs, which include the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and the Millennium Dome |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Belsize Grove |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1969-1994 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Roget, Peter Mark (1779-1869) |
| Brief: | Physician, medical author and lecturer, invented the log-log slide rule, compiler of the eponymous Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/upper_bedford_place.htm |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Bedford Way |
| Contemp. address: | 18 Upper Bedford Place |
| Resident: | 1843-1869 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Roget, Peter Mark (1779-1869) |
| Brief: | Physician, medical author and lecturer, invented the log-log slide rule, compiler of the eponymous Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/upper_bedford_place.htm |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 39 Bernard Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1808-1843 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Roget, Peter Mark (1779-1869) |
| Brief: | Physician, medical author and lecturer, invented the log-log slide rule, compiler of the eponymous Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/upper_bedford_place.htm |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 46 Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1800 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913) |
| Brief: | Writer, artist, photographer and eccentric who styled himself Baron Corvo. |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 69 Broadhurst Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1899-1904 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Romanov, Michael Mikhailovich, Grand Duke (1861-1929) |
| Brief: | Member of the Romanov dynasty, exiled for marrying without permission of the Tsar |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Kenwood House |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1910-1917 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Romanov, Michael Mikhailovich, Grand Duke (1861-1929) |
| Brief: | Member of the Romanov dynasty, exiled for marrying without permission of the Tsar |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 3 Cambridge Gate |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1917-1921 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Romanov, Michael Mikhailovich, Grand Duke (1861-1929) |
| Brief: | Member of the Romanov dynasty, exiled for marrying without permission of the Tsar |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Cambridge Gate |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1921-1929 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Romilly, John, first Baron Romilly (1802-1874) |
| Brief: | Whig politician and judge who served as Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and Master of the Rolls |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s), see Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757-1818) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1844-1852 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Romilly, John, first Baron Romilly (1802-1874) |
| Brief: | Whig politician and judge who served as Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and Master of the Rolls |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s), see Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757-1818) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 23 Torrington Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1837-1840 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757-1818) |
| Brief: | Lawyer and politician who visited Paris to study the course of the French Revolution |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1806-1818 |
| Notes: | Bedford Estate plaque, family home of Romilly, John, first Baron Romilly (1802-1874) |
| Name: | Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757-1818) |
| Brief: | Lawyer and politician who visited Paris to study the course of the French Revolution |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 54 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 27 Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1798-1806 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Romilly, Sir Samuel (1757-1818) |
| Brief: | Lawyer and politician who visited Paris to study the course of the French Revolution |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 6 Gray's Inn Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1778-1791 |
| Notes: | Memorial plaque |
| Name: | Romney, George (1734-1802) |
| Brief: | English portrait painter who was the most fashionable artist of his day |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Holly Bush Hill |
| Contemp. address: | 6 The Mount |
| Resident: | 1796-1799 |
| Notes: | LCC blue plaque |
| Name: | Romney, John (1786-1863) |
| Brief: | Engraver and watercolour painter, best known for his views of Chester |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Phoenix Road |
| Contemp. address: | 6 Charles Street |
| Resident: | 1821 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ronalds, Sir Francis (1788-1873) |
| Brief: | Meteorologist and inventor of the first working electric telegraph, Honorary Director of the Kew Observatory |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 40 Queen Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1820-1822 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ronge [née Meyer], Bertha (1818-1863) |
| Brief: | Educationist who established the kindergarten movement in England |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 68 Royal College Street |
| Contemp. address: | 11 Pratt Terrace |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ronge [née Meyer], Bertha (1818-1863) |
| Brief: | Educationist who established the kindergarten movement in England |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13 Tavistock Place |
| Contemp. address: | 32 Tavistock Place |
| Resident: | 1853-1860 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rooker, Edward (1724-1774) |
| Brief: | Engraver, draughtsman and actor (often playing the role of the harlequin) |
| Category: | Printmaking & photography |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Great Russell Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1774 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Room, Henry (1803-1850) |
| Brief: | Portrait painter active in the Birmingham Society of Artists |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 28 Osnaburgh Street |
| Contemp. address: | 12 Osnaburgh Street |
| Resident: | 1850 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield (1833-1915) |
| Brief: | Chemist who studied vanadium and photochemistry, University administrator and MP |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 14 Torrington Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield (1833-1915) |
| Brief: | Chemist who studied vanadium and photochemistry, University administrator and MP |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Powis Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1833 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918) |
| Brief: | Poet (Poems from the Trenches) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 1 Chalcot Square |
| Contemp. address: | 1 St George's Square |
| Resident: | 1912-1914 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918) |
| Brief: | Poet (Poems from the Trenches) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 32 Carlingford Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1912 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rosenkrantz, Arild (1870-1964) |
| Brief: | Painter, sculptor, stained glass artist and illustrator. His glass can be seen at Cadogan Hall |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16A Maresfield Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1929-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rosmer, Milton [born Arthur Henry Milton Lunt] (1881-1971) |
| Brief: | Actor, mostly in supporting roles, film director and screenwriter |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 77 Brecknock Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1916 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rosoman, (Henry) Leonard (1913-2012) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator known for his paintings based on his experiences as a fire-fighter during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Dene Mansions, Dennington Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1913 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rosoman, (Henry) Leonard (1913-2012) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator known for his paintings based on his experiences as a fire-fighter during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 13A Heath Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1939-1945 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ross, Annie [born Annabelle McCauley Allan Short] (1930-2020) |
| Brief: | Jazz singer, actress and nightclub owner |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 12A Douglas Court, West End Lane |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1978-1983 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ross, Donald Nixon (1922-2014) |
| Brief: | Cardiac surgeon who led the team that carried out the first heart transplant in the UK |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 6 Frognal Rise |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1956-1959 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Ross, Donald Nixon (1922-2014) |
| Brief: | Cardiac surgeon who led the team that carried out the first heart transplant in the UK |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | Cumberland Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 2007-2014 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
| Name: | Ross, Sir William Charles (1794-1860) |
| Brief: | Highly regarded portrait and portrait miniature painter |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 38 Fitzroy Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1850-1860 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ross, Sir William Charles (1794-1860) |
| Brief: | Highly regarded portrait and portrait miniature painter |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 109 Charlotte street |
| Contemp. address: | 52 Charlotte street |
| Resident: | 1817-1845 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894) |
| Brief: | Poet (Goblin Market, Remember, In the Bleak Midwinter) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 Torrington Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1876-1894 |
| Notes: | Bedford Estate plaque |
| Name: | Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894) |
| Brief: | Poet (Goblin Market, Remember, In the Bleak Midwinter) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 78 Arlington Road |
| Contemp. address: | 38 Arlington Street |
| Resident: | 1851-1853 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894) |
| Brief: | Poet (Goblin Market, Remember, In the Bleak Midwinter) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 166 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 45 Upper Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1854-1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894) |
| Brief: | Poet (Goblin Market, Remember, In the Bleak Midwinter) |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Endsleigh Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | 56 Euston Square |
| Resident: | 1867-1876 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) |
| Brief: | Painter and poet, founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 17 Red Lion Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | LCC plaque |
| Name: | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) |
| Brief: | Painter and poet, founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Spring Cottage, Downshire Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1860 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919) |
| Brief: | Art critic and literary editor, founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which he promoted and documented |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 166 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 45 Upper Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1854-1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919) |
| Brief: | Art critic and literary editor, founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which he promoted and documented |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 78 Arlington Road |
| Contemp. address: | 38 Arlington Street |
| Resident: | 1851-1853 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919) |
| Brief: | Art critic and literary editor, founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which he promoted and documented |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Endsleigh Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | 56 Euston Square |
| Resident: | 1867-1887 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossi, John Charles Felix (1762-1839) |
| Brief: | Sculptor who sometimes worked in artificial stone. His work includes several monuments in St Paul's and the Caryatids outside St Pancras New Church |
| Category: | Applied arts (incl. architecture & sculpture) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 76 Whitfield Street |
| Contemp. address: | 39 Upper John Street |
| Resident: | 1792-1797 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossington, Norman (1928-1999) |
| Brief: | Character actor familiar from TV and oles in 'The Army Game', the 'Carry On' films and the Beatles' film 'A Hard Day's Night'. |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 27 Parliament Hill |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1956-1983 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rossiter, Charles (1827-1897) |
| Brief: | Genre painter and engraver, best known work is 'To Brighton and Back for 3s 6d' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Mortimer Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1851-1855 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossiter, Charles (1827-1897) |
| Brief: | Genre painter and engraver, best known work is 'To Brighton and Back for 3s 6d' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | New End |
| Contemp. address: | 3 New End |
| Resident: | 1857-1861 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rossiter, Charles (1827-1897) |
| Brief: | Genre painter and engraver, best known work is 'To Brighton and Back for 3s 6d' |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 115 Malden Road |
| Contemp. address: | 5 Chamber's Terrace |
| Resident: | 1863-1864 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rotblat, Sir Joseph (1908-2005) |
| Brief: | Physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, studied nuclear fallout, became secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences, won the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Asmara Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1950-2005 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Roth, Andrew (1919-2010) |
| Brief: | Biographer and journalist known for his compilation of Parliamentary Profiles |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 34 Somali Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1953-1991 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rothenstein, Sir John Knewstub Maurice (1901-1992) |
| Brief: | Art historian and administrator, Director of the Tate Gallery and author of 'Modern English Painters' |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | For family home(s), see Rothenstein, Sir William (1872-1945) |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Fellows Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1938-1939 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rothenstein, Sir William (1872-1945) |
| Brief: | Painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer and writer on art. Best known as a war artist in both world wars, for his portraits and his popular memoirs |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 11 Oak Hill Park |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1908-1911 |
| Notes: | Demolished, family home of Rothenstein, Sir John Knewstub Maurice (1901-1992) |
| Name: | Rothenstein, Sir William (1872-1945) |
| Brief: | Painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer and writer on art. Best known as a war artist in both world wars, for his portraits and his popular memoirs |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 26 Church Row |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1905-1907 |
| Notes: | Family home of Rothenstein, Sir John Knewstub Maurice (1901-1992) |
| Name: | Rothstein, Andrew (1898-1994) |
| Brief: | One of the leading public faces of the British Communist movement, awarded a Soviet pension on retirement |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Parkwood House, 58 Elsworthy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1994 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rothwell, Richard Rainshaw (1809-1890) |
| Brief: | Barrister and last Lord of the Manor of Sharples, developed property in Primrose Hill |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://halliwell-lhs.co.uk/articles/the-lordship-of-the-manor-of-sharples/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 27 Mornington Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | 27 Mornington Road |
| Resident: | 1867 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rothwell, Richard Rainshaw (1809-1890) |
| Brief: | Barrister and last Lord of the Manor of Sharples, developed property in Primrose Hill |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://halliwell-lhs.co.uk/articles/the-lordship-of-the-manor-of-sharples/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 47 Albert Street |
| Contemp. address: | 68 Albert Street |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rothwell, Richard Rainshaw (1809-1890) |
| Brief: | Barrister and last Lord of the Manor of Sharples, developed property in Primrose Hill |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://halliwell-lhs.co.uk/articles/the-lordship-of-the-manor-of-sharples/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 118 Regent's Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1885-1890 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rothwell, Rosalind Alice [Evelyn], Lady Barbirolli (1911-2008) |
| Brief: | Oboist, author of 'The Oboist's Companion', teacher at the Royal Academy of Music |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 15 Buckland Crescent |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1995-2008 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Routledge, George (1812-1888) |
| Brief: | Publisher, the founder of the George Routledge & Sons. The 'Railway Library' ran to almost 1300 titles |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 50 Russell Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1859-1888 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rowley, William (1742-1806) |
| Brief: | Man-midwife and surgeon, prominent anti-vaccination campaigner who published 'Cow-pox inoculation no security against small-pox infection' |
| Category: | Medicine |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | near Fortess Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1806 |
| Notes: | Demolished, location uncertain |
| Name: | Rowney, George (1792-1870) |
| Brief: | Owner of George Rowney & Company, manufacturers of artists materials |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daler-Rowney |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 44 Crowndale Road |
| Contemp. address: | 23 Gloucester Place |
| Resident: | 1837-1841 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rowney, George (1792-1870) |
| Brief: | Owner of George Rowney & Company, manufacturers of artists materials |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daler-Rowney |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | near Hampstead Road |
| Contemp. address: | 2 Ampthill Square |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rowney, George (1792-1870) |
| Brief: | Owner of George Rowney & Company, manufacturers of artists materials |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daler-Rowney |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 57 Oakley Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1861-1870 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rowntree, Kenneth (1915-1997) |
| Brief: | Head of mural painting at the RCA, painted murals for the Festival of Britain and glass panels for Goldfinger's Alexander Fleming House |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | https://httpartistichorizons.org/2022/02/13/kenneth-rowntree-part-one-plus-a-feature-on-the-friends-meeting-house-great-bardfield/ |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Flat 28, Isokon, Lawn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1940-1941 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Roy, Ram Mohan (1772-1833) |
| Brief: | Indian scholar and reformer |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 49 Bedford Square |
| Contemp. address: | 48 Bedford Square |
| Resident: | 1832-1833 |
| Notes: | GLC blue plaque |
| Name: | Royde-Smith, Naomi Gwladys (1875-1964) |
| Brief: | Writer who published nearly 50 novels, biographies, and plays. She was the first woman literary editor of the Westminster Gazette |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 4 Chester Gate |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1927 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Royde-Smith, Naomi Gwladys (1875-1964) |
| Brief: | Writer who published nearly 50 novels, biographies, and plays. She was the first woman literary editor of the Westminster Gazette |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 72 Regent's Park Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1927 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Royle, John Forbes (1798-1858) |
| Brief: | Botanist, surgeon and professor of materia medica at King's College London, one of the commissioners for the City of London in the 1851 exhibition |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 97 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 48 Upper Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1841-1843 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rubens, Bernice [real name Bernice Ruth Reuben] (1923-2004) |
| Brief: | Novelist, the first woman to win the Booker Prize for 'The Elected Member' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16A Belsize Park Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1989-2004 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rubens, Bernice [real name Bernice Ruth Reuben] (1923-2004) |
| Brief: | Novelist, the first woman to win the Booker Prize for 'The Elected Member' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 10 Compayne Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1956-1964 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rubens, Bernice [real name Bernice Ruth Reuben] (1923-2004) |
| Brief: | Novelist, the first woman to win the Booker Prize for 'The Elected Member' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 21 Steele's Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1948-1952 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rubens, Bernice [real name Bernice Ruth Reuben] (1923-2004) |
| Brief: | Novelist, the first woman to win the Booker Prize for 'The Elected Member' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 16 Frognal Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1967-1975 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rubens, Bernice [real name Bernice Ruth Reuben] (1923-2004) |
| Brief: | Novelist, the first woman to win the Booker Prize for 'The Elected Member' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 89 Greencroft Gardens |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1974-1986 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ruck, Amy Roberta [Berta] (1878-1978) |
| Brief: | Writer of over 90 romance novels between 1905 and 1972 |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 2 Heath House, 26 New End Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rudge, Edward (1763-1846) |
| Brief: | Botanist and antiquary |
| Category: | Science, engineering & mathematics |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 8 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | 4 Russell Place |
| Resident: | 1794-1804 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ruff, William (1801-1856) |
| Brief: | Sporting journalist who pioneered the use of pigeons to get his reports to London, founder of 'The Guide to the Turf, or, Pocket Racing Companion' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 33 Doughty Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1845-1856 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Ruff, William (1801-1856) |
| Brief: | Sporting journalist who pioneered the use of pigeons to get his reports to London, founder of 'The Guide to the Turf, or, Pocket Racing Companion' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 30 Doughty Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1844 |
| Notes: | Rebuilt |
| Name: | Ruskin, John (1819-1900) |
| Brief: | Influential writer, philosopher and art critic. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 54 Hunter Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1819-1823 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, third Earl Russell (1872-1970) |
| Brief: | Philosopher, journalist, and political campaigner |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 34 Russell Chambers, Bury Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1911-1916 |
| Notes: | EH blue plaque |
| Name: | Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, third Earl Russell (1872-1970) |
| Brief: | Philosopher, journalist, and political campaigner |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 57 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1916-1918 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Russell, Conrad Sebastian Robert, fifth Earl Russell (1937-2004) |
| Brief: | Historian specialising in the civil war and Liberal Democrat party politician |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 110 Goldhurst Terrace |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1965-1967 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Russell, George William (1867-1935) |
| Brief: | Journalist, poet, painter and agricultural economist, pen name AE, Irish nationalist and central figure in Irish Theosophy |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 22 Tavistock Place |
| Contemp. address: | 14 Tavistock Place |
| Resident: | 1935 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Russell, John Francis Stanley [Frank], second Earl Russell (1865-1931) |
| Brief: | Barrister and politician |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 57 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1902-1922 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Russell, John, fourth duke of Bedford (1710-1771) |
| Brief: | Whig politician who negotiated the Treaty of Paris, an early promoter of cricket and a patron of Canaletto. |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Bloomsbury Square |
| Contemp. address: | Bedford House |
| Resident: | 1730-1771 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Russell, Raymond Anthony (1922-1964) |
| Brief: | Organologist who assembled an important collection of early keyboard instruments |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 5 Holly Bush Hill |
| Contemp. address: | Romney's House |
| Resident: | 1949-1952 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rust, William Charles (1903-1949) |
| Brief: | Journalist and communist activist, secretary of the Young Communist League, editor of the Daily Worker, war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 45 Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1943-1949 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rust, William Charles (1903-1949) |
| Brief: | Journalist and communist activist, secretary of the Young Communist League, editor of the Daily Worker, war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 54 Fitzroy Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | ~1942 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rutherford, Dame Margaret Taylor (1892-1972) |
| Brief: | Actress on stage, television and film, Academy Award and Golden Globe winner, the definitive Miss Prism |
| Category: | Performing arts (incl. composers of music & sport) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 St Andrew's Place |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1945-1953 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rutherston, Albert Daniel (1881-1953) |
| Brief: | Painter and illustrator, one of the original members of the Fitzroy Street Group |
| Category: | Painting & drawing |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 18 Fitzroy Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1903-1908 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ryan, Richard (1797-1849) |
| Brief: | Biographer and writer who produced the first Irish biographical dictionary 'Biographia Hibernica' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 9 Pratt Street |
| Contemp. address: | 5 Pratt Street |
| Resident: | 1844-1849 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ryan, Richard (1797-1849) |
| Brief: | Biographer and writer who produced the first Irish biographical dictionary 'Biographia Hibernica' |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 30 Parkway |
| Contemp. address: | 49 Park Street |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ryan, Sir Edward (1793-1875) |
| Brief: | Lawyer, judge, reformer of the British Civil Service and patron of science. He served as Chief Justice of Bengal and Vice-chancellor of the University of London. |
| Category: | Politics & administration (incl. law & economics) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 133 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | 30 Upper Gower Street |
| Resident: | 1823-1826 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rye, William Brenchley (1818-1901) |
| Brief: | Writer, antiquarian and librarian, keeper in the department of printed books at the British Museum |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 25 Stratford Villas |
| Contemp. address: | 19 Stratford Place |
| Resident: | 1861 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rye, William Brenchley (1818-1901) |
| Brief: | Writer, antiquarian and librarian, keeper in the department of printed books at the British Museum |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 144 Kentish Town Road |
| Contemp. address: | 12 Bartholomew Place |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Rebuilt? |
| Name: | Rykwert, Joseph (1926-2024) |
| Brief: | Architectural historian and writer, expert on the work of Leon Battista Alberti |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 26A Wedderburn Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1972-2024 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rykwert, Joseph (1926-2024) |
| Brief: | Architectural historian and writer, expert on the work of Leon Battista Alberti |
| Category: | Religion, reform & social science |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 11 Eton Road |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1962-1966 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rylance, Ralph (1782-1834) |
| Brief: | Writer and editor whose 1815 'Epicure's Almanack, or, Calendar of Good Living' included notices of some 650 eating houses, pubs, and coffee houses in and around London |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | https://lostcookbook.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/epicures-almanack/ |
| Ancestry: | |
| Address: | 96 Albany Street |
| Contemp. address: | 48 Albany Street |
| Resident: | 1829 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rylands, George Humphrey Wolferstan [Dadie] (1902-1999) |
| Brief: | Literary scholar and theatre director, member of the Cambridge Apostles, chairman of the Cambridge Arts Theatre, directed audio recordings of the entire Shakespeare canon |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 37 Gordon Square |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1926-1929 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rylands, John (1801-1888) |
| Brief: | Businessman who owned the largest textile manufacturing concern in the UK and became Manchester's first multi-millionaire, philanthropist who gave generously to a wide variety of causes |
| Category: | Other (incl. business, military & exploration) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 104 Gower Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1874-1875 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Rymer, James Malcolm (1814-1884) |
| Brief: | Inventor of an improved furniture castor and a prolific novelist under multiple pseudonyms |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 42 Burton Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1841 |
| Notes: | |
| Name: | Rymer, James Malcolm (1814-1884) |
| Brief: | Inventor of an improved furniture castor and a prolific novelist under multiple pseudonyms |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | 142 Southampton Row |
| Contemp. address: | 28 Southampton Row |
| Resident: | 1851 |
| Notes: | Demolished |
| Name: | Ryves, Elizabeth (1750-1797) |
| Brief: | Poet and novelist who died in poverty |
| Category: | Literature (incl. poetry, journalism & publishing) |
| Wikipedia: | Wikipedia |
| ODNB: | ODNB |
| Other ref.: | |
| Ancestry: | Ancestry |
| Address: | Store Street |
| Contemp. address: | |
| Resident: | 1797 |
| Notes: | Location uncertain |
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