Inventors (1571 pages found in this category)


Robert Sample

Early 18th-century pirate.

Robert Southey

Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's poet laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843

Robert Tatton

Member of the Tatton family who unsuccessfully defended his family home, Wythenshawe Hall, against a siege by Parliamentary forces in the winter of 1643/44.

Robin Grison

Redirected to Robert Grierson, witchcraft.

Rockingham Mausoleum

Monument commissioned by the Earl Fitzwilliam as a memorial to the second Marquess of Rockingham in 1783.

Rockingham Pottery

Redirected to Swinton Pottery.

Rockingham Works

Redirected to Swinton Pottery.

Rococo

Exceptionally ornate and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration.

Roger Hampson

Painter, printmaker, teacher and a member of the group of post-war northern artists who developed the realist tradition established by L S Lowry and Harry Rutherford.

Roman numerals

System of using letters to represent numbers, an idea that was developed by the Phoenicians two thousand years before the founding of the city of Rome.