Prime Minister. =Premier. Head of parliamentary government under the head of state (monarch or president). Walpole (1721-42) considered first British Prime Minister. Richelieu 1624 France. Chancellor.

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

Rauschenberg, Robert. 1925-. US Pop artist. Collage. Trapeze 1964.

Remak, Robert. 1815-65. Cell division 1852.

Ridolfi, Roberto. 1531-1612. Italian Catholic plotter vs Elizabeth I 1571. Norfolk.

Robert, Charles. Paris balloonist 1783.

Robert I. Duke of Normandy 1027-35. Father of William I.

Robert II. 1054-1134. Duke of Normandy 1087-1106. Son of William I. Led First Crusade.

Robert II. 1316-90. First Stuart King of Scotland. 1371-.

Robert, Henry. 1837-1923. US writer. Robert’s Rules of Order 1876.

Robert of Geneva. Clement VII, Antipope.

Roberts, Charles. 1860-1943. Poet, “Father of Canadian literature”. Songs of the Common Day 1893.

Roberts, Frederick. 1832-1914. British Field Marshal. Afghan War. Boer War.

Rochdale. 1844 Pioneer cooperative. Owen.

Romantic. Period of music. c1800-1910. Sought freedom of expression. Instrumental virtuoso. Berlioz. Liszt. Schubert. Schumann.

Schuman, Robert. 1886-1963. French Prime Minister 1947-8. 1950 plan to pool European resources led to EEC.

Schumann, Robert. 1810-56. German Romantic piano, choral composer. Lyrical works. Spring Symphony 1841. Rhenish Symphony 1850.

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

Separatists. 16-17C. Factions who left Church of England. Brownists, Pilgrims, Quakers.

Service, Robert. 1874-1958. Canadian poet. Shooting of Dan McGraw.

Sheridan, Philip. 1831-88. Union general, captured Shenandoah, forced Lee’s surrender.

Sherwood, Robert. 1896-1955. US dramatist. Idiot’s Delight 1936.

Sirhan, Sirhan. 1944-. Arab/US killer of Robert Kennedy.

Smirke, Robert. 1781-1867. Architect. British Museum 1823.

Sorbonne College. c1257. Founded by Robert de Sorbon. Seat of University of Paris.

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