Rawson Hart Boddam was the former Governor of the Bombay Presidency during the rule of the East India Company in British India from 1784 to 1788
Briton Rivière was a British artist of Huguenot descent. He exhibited a variety of paintings at the Royal Academy, but devoted much of his life to animal paintings
Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts was a British Victorian era general who became one of the most successful British military commanders of his time
Sir Anthony Nathan de Rothschild was a British financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England
Nathaniel Charles Rothschild was an English banker and entomologist and a member of the Rothschild family. He is remembered for The Rothschild List, a list he made in 1915 of 284 sites across Britain that he considered suitable for nature reserves. He devoted much of his energies to entomology and natural history collecting. His enormous collection of some 260,000 fleas in now in the Rothschild Collection at the Natural History Museum. He described about 500 new flea species
George Dawson Rowley was an English amateur ornithologist who published a series called Ornithological Miscellany in which he reprinted notes on bird studies of the time