1. Raby Castle, 1, 2, 3
  2. ratal voting, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
  3. Reade, Consul, 1
  4. Redding, Cyrus, 1
  5. Redesdale, John Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron, 1, 2
  6. Redistribution Bill (1867), 1
  7. Redschid Ali, 1
  8. Reform Bill (1832), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
    1. becomes law, 1, 2;
    2. reduces power of Crown, 1;
    3. impetus to party organization, 1;
    4. gives power to ‘middle class’, 1
  9. Reform Bill (1852), 1;
    1. (1854), 1
  10. Reform Bill (1859), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. defeated by Russell, 1
  11. Reform Bill (1860), 1
  12. Reform Bill (1866), 1, 2;
    1. principal features of, 1;
    2. defeat of, 1
  13. Reform Bill, Second (1867), 1, 2, 3;
    1. Clay and, 1, 2, 3;
    2. Derby favours, 1;
    3. resolutions and Royal Commission, 1, 2;
    4. vacillation over, 1;
    5. framing of, 1, 2;
    6. revolt of Cranborne and Carnarvon, 1, 2;
    7. ‘Ten Minutes Bill’, 1, 2, 3;
    8. household suffrage, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    9. transformation of, 1;
    10. Gladstone’s analysis of, 1;
    11. Tea Room Revolt, 1;
    12. D’s piloting of Bill, 1, 2, 3;
    13. lodger franchise, 1;
    14. abolition of compounder, 1;
    15. fancy franchises disappear, 1;
    16. female suffrage defeated, 1;
    17. Redistribution Bill, 1;
    18. attacks on, 1;
    19. D’s share assessed, 1, 2;
    20. and working classes, 1, 2, 3
  14. Reform Bills, Irish and Scottish, 1, 2
  15. Reform Club, 1
  16. Reichstadt Agreement (1876), 1
  17. Religion, Achaian and Semitic (Gladstone), 1
  18. Rendel, Lord, 1
  19. Representative, The (daily), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
    1. Vivian Grey, the story of, 1, 2, 3, 4
  20. Revolutionary Epick (D), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. Isaac’s opinion of, 1;
    2. D’s recital of opening canto, 1;
    3. publication and failure of, 1
  21. Rhine, D’s 1824 tour of, 1
  22. Ricardo, David, 1
  23. Richmond, Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of, 1, 2, 3, 4
  24. Richmond, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. at Board of Trade, 1, 2;
    2. leader of Lords, 1, 2, 3;
    3. Lord President, 1, 2, 3
  25. Ridley, Sir Mathew, 1
  26. Rieti, Rebecca (Mrs Naphtali Basevi, D’s maternal grandmother), 1
  27. Rieti, Solomon, 1
  28. Ripon, George Robinson, 1st Marquis of, 1
  29. Rise of Iskander (D), 1, 2
  30. Risorgimento, 1
  31. Ritual Commission, 1
  32. Rivers Pollution Act (1876), 1, 2n
  33. Roberts, General (later Earl Roberts of Kandahar), 1, 2, 3
  34. Robinson, Henry Crabb, 1
  35. Roebuck, John Arthur, 1;
    1. censures conduct of Crimean War, 1
  36. Rogers, Samuel, 1, 2
  37. Roman Catholicism, 1, 2;
    1. Maynooth grant, 1, 2;
    2. in Tancred and Sybil, 1, 2;
    3. ‘Papal Aggression’, 1, 2;
    4. D’s plan for Irish Church, 1, 2, 3;
    5. he regards as irreconcilable, 1, 2;
    6. Gladstone’s plan for university, 1
  38. Roper, Miss, D at her school, 1
  39. Rose, Sir Philip, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13n , 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28;
    1. given County Court Treasurership, 1;
    2. and Reform Bill, 1;
    3. his baronetcy, 1, 2;
    4. D’s executor, 1
  40. Rose, Stewart, 1
  41. Rosebank, 1, 2
  42. Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of, 1
  43. Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of, 1, 2, 3;
    1. wedding of, 1;
    2. in Midlothian campaign, 1, 2;
    3. at D’s funeral, 1
  44. Rosetta, 1
  45. Rosslyn, 4th Earl of, 1, 2, 3, 4
  46. Roth, Dr Cecil, 1, 2, 3
  47. Rothesay, Stewart de, 1
  48. Rothschild family, 1, 2, 3
  49. Rothschild, Alfred de, 1, 2, 3
  50. Rothschild, Sir Anthony de, 1
  51. Rothschild, Baron Lionel de, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
    1. and Suez Canal purchase, 1, 2
  52. Rothschild, Sir Nathaniel, 1, 2
  53. Rothschild, Hannah (Lady Rosebery), 1
  54. Rowton, Montague Corry, 1st Baron, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
    1. See also as Corry, Montague
  55. Rowton Castle, 1, 2
  56. Royal Titles Act (1876), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  57. Rumpel Stiltskin (D’s earliest surviving work), 1n
  58. Running Rein fraud (1884), 1
  59. ‘Runnymede Letters’ (D), 1
  60. Ruskin, John, 1
  61. Russell, Francis Hastings, 9th Duke of Bedford, 1
  62. Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
    1. ‘an Insect’, 1,
    2. vacillates 1;
    3. succeeds Peel, 1, 2, 3;
    4. and Jewish question, 1, 2;
    5. protests at Papal ‘aggression’, 1, 2, 3, 4;
    6. resigns, 1;
    7. resumes office, 1;
    8. dismisses Palmerston, 1;
    9. resigns, 1, 2;
    10. as a younger son, 1;
    11. pledges no Irish income tax, 1;
    12. passed over as Prime Minister, 1;
    13. resigns, 1;
    14. declines office, 1;
    15. and Reform, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
    16. pro-Italian, 1;
    17. reconciliation with Palmerston, 1, 2;
    18. ‘meddle and muddle’ policy, 1;
    19. ‘some elements of sympathy’ with D, 1;
    20. succeeds Palmerston as Prime Minister, 1;
    21. resigns after Reform Bill defeat, 1;
    22. retires from party leadership, 1;
    23. ‘activist’, 1
  63. Russell, Lord Odo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  64. Russell, W. H., 1
  65. Russia and the Balkans (Sumner), 1n
  66. Rustchuk, 1
  67. Rutland, 5th Duke of, 1, 2, 3
  68. Rutland, 8th Duke of, 1
  69. Ryle, John Charles, Bishop of Liverpool, 1