Rogers, John. 1500-55. English Protestant martyr. Published forerunner of King James Bible.

Roget, Peter. 1779-1869. English physician. Thesaurus 1852.

Rolfe, John. 1585-1622. English colonist in Virginia. Married Pocahontas.

Rosamund, Fair. c1140-1176. English Henry II’s mistress.

Roses, War of. 1455-85. York (white) vs Lancaster (red) for English throne. Lancaster rule ended. Henry VII (Tudor/Lancaster) married Elizabeth (York). Bosworth Field. Plantagenet.

Rossetti, Christina. 1830-94. English religious poet. Prince’s Progress 1866.

Rossetti, Dante. 1828-82. English poet/painter. Founded Pre-Raphaelites. Blessed Damozel 1850. Beata Beatrix c1863.

Roundhead. Derisory term applied to Parliamentarians during English Civil War.

Rowley, William. 1585-1642. English actor, playwright. All’s Lost by Lust 1619.

Royal Society. 1660. English publisher of scientific Philosophical Transactions since 1665.

Rupert, Prince. 1619-82. Royalist commander in English Civil War. First President of Hudson’s Bay Co.

Ruskin, John. 1819-1900. English writer and Pre-Raphaelite art critic. Social reformer.

Russell, Bertrand. 1872-1970. English mathematician, liberal philosopher, logician, pacifist. Believed in human reason. Founded CND. Principles of Mathematics 1910-13. History of Western Philosophy 1945.

Russell, William. 1639-83. English Whig. Executed, then acquitted for Rye House Plot.

Rutherford, Ernest. 1871-1937. NZ/English physicist. Beta rays 1899, Nuclear theory of atom1911.

Rymer, Thomas. 1641-1713. English Neoclassical literary critic: attacked Shakespeare.

Sackville, Thomas. 1536-1608. British dramatist. First English blank-verse tragedy. Gorboduc 1561.

Sandys, Edwin. 1561-1629. English parliamentarian. His ideas helped overthrow Charles I.

Sark. 1040 Norman. 1066 English fief. 1565 colonized. 1940-45 Germans occupy.

Sayers, Dorothy. 1893-1957. English mystery writer. Lord Peter Wimsey.

Scott, Robert. 1868-1912. English Antarctic explorer. Died returning from the South Pole.

Scriblerus Club. 18C English literary club. Satirized contemporary writing. Swift. Pope.

Shaftesbury, 7th earl. 1801-85. English reform politician. Coal Mines Act 1842. Factory Acts. Sponsored schools, housing for poor.

Shakers. 1747-. English celibate communal Quaker sect. 1774 moved to US.

Shakespeare, William. 1564-1616. English dramatic poet. Master of language, characters, perception.Titus Andronicus c1593. Romeo and Juliet c1594. Hamlet c1602. Othello c1604. King Lear c1606. Lover’s Complaint c1609. Sonnets 1609. Tempest 1611.

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