Priestley, Joseph. 1733-1804. English chemist: isolated Oxygen 1774, 9 other gasses.

Prior, Matthew. 1664-1721. English epigrammist/poet: City Mouse and the Country Mouse.

Privy Council. English monarch’s principal advisers. Little power since 17C.

Protectorate. 1653-9. English government after Civil War by Instrument of Government. Cromwell.

Protestant Succession. 1701. English Act of Settlement.

Puck. Medieval English mischievous fairy.

Purcell, Henry. 1658-1695. English chorale composer. First English opera. Dido and Aeneas 1689. King Arthur 1691. Fairy Queen 1692.

Puritanism. 16-17C. English Calvinist movement to purify church of Catholic and political elements. Valued hard work, education, thrift.

Pusey, Edward. 1800-82. English. Led Oxford Movement.

Pym, John. 1583-1643. English Puritan. Led Long Parliament. Civil War.

Quant, Mary. 1934-. English fashion designer. Miniskirt.

Queen Anne’s War. 1702-13. French vs English in North America in War of Spanish Succession.

Quiller-Couch (Q). 1863-1944. English editor of Oxford Book of English Verse 1900,39.

Radcliffe, Ann. 1764-1823. English Gothic novelist. Mysteries of Udolpho 1794.

Raffles, Thomas. 1781-1826. English founder of Singapore 1819.

Raikes, Robert. 1736-1811. English Sunday School pioneer.

Raleigh, Walter. 1554-1618. English colonist in Virginia. Introduced tobacco, potato to Europe. Beheaded.

Ramsay, William. 1852-1916. English chemist: discovered helium 1895; neon, krypton, xenon 1898.

Ranters. 1649-60. English Puritan mystic sect.

Rayleigh, Lord. 1842-1919. English physicist, wave theorist.

Read, Herbert. 1893-1968. English critic, poet: Art and Society 1936.

Renaissance Music. c16C. Freer, flexible polyphony; steady, predictable rhythm. Palestrina. Gabrieli. English madrigals.

Restoration. 1660. English Monarchy reinstated following Protectorate. 1791 French Revolutionary Wars.

Revivalism. 18,19C. Revival of prior periods of English architecture. Neo-Greek, Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Gothic. British Museum.

Reynolds, Joshua. 1723-92. English expressive portrait painter: Mrs. Siddons. Miss Nelly 1760. Founder, Royal Academy 1768.

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