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