| G. Re. | Sir George Reid, LL.D.- See the biographical article: Reid, Sir George.
| | Portraiture. |
| G. Sa. | George Saintsbury, LL.D., D.C.L.- See the biographical article: Saintsbury, George E. B.
| | Quinet; Rabelais; Racine. |
| G. W. T. | Rev. Griffithes Wheeler Thatcher, M.A., B.D.- Warden of Camden College, Sydney, N.S.W. Formerly Tutor in Hebrew and Old Testament History at Mansfield College, Oxford.
| | Rāwendis. |
| H. A. Y. | Horatio Arthur Yorke, C.B.- Lieut.-Colonel, R.E. (retired). Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, Board of Trade. Served in Afghan War, 1879-1880; Nile Expedition, 1884-1885.
| | Railways: British Railway Legislation. |
| H. D. W. | Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. (1830-1908).- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Madrid, 1892-1900. M.P. for Christchurch, 1874-1880; for Portsmouth, 1880-1885. Author of A Life of Napoleon at Elba; &c.
| | Primrose League. |
| H. Fr. | Henri Frantz.- Art Critic, Gazette des beaux arts, Paris.
| | Puvis de Chavannes. |
| H. F. G. | Hans Friedrich Gadow, F.R.S., Ph.D.- Strickland Curator and Lecturer on Zoology in the University of Cambridge. Author of “Amphibia and Reptiles” in the Cambridge Natural History; &c.
| | Python; Ratitae; Rattlesnake (in part). |
| H. F. P. | Henry Francis Pelham, LL.D., D.C.L.- See the biographical article: Pelham, H. F.
| | Polybius (in part). |
| H. M. R. | Hugh Munro Ross.- Formerly Exhibitioner of Lincoln College, Oxford. Editor of The Times Engineering Supplement. Author of British Railways.
| | Railways: Introduction. Construction, Rolling Stock. |
| H. N. D. | Henry Newton Dickson, MA., D.Sc, F.R.S. (Edin.), F.R.G.S.- Professor of Geography at University College, Reading. Formerly Vice-President, Royal Meteorological Society. Lecturer in Physical Geography, Oxford University. Author of Meteorology; Elements of Weather and Climate; &c.
| | Red Sea. |
| H. O. | Hermann Oelsner, M.A., Ph.D.- Taylorian Professor of the Romance Languages in the University of Oxford. Member of Council of the Philological Society. Author of A History of Provençal Literature; &c.
| | Provençal Literature: Modern. |
| H. R. L. | The Rev. Henry Richards Luard, M.A., D.D. (1825-1891).- Registrary of the University of Cambridge, 1862-1891. Formerly Fellow, Bursar and Lecturer at Trinity College. Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London. Editor of the Annales Monastici; the Historia of Matthew Paris and other works for the “Rolls” Series.
| | Porson (in part). |
| H. Ti. | Henry Tiedemann.- London Editor of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant. Author of a Dutch biography, and various pamphlets and travel works, including Via Flushing.
| | Potgieter. |
| H. T. A. | Rev. Herbert Thomas Andrews.- Professor of New Testament Exegesis, New College, London. Author of " The Commentary on Acts" in the Westminster New Testament; Handbook on the Apocryphal Books in the “Century” Bible.
| | Polycarp; Presbyter. |
| H. W. C. D. | Henry William Carless Davis, M.A.- Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford. Fellow of All Souls’ College. Oxford, 1895-1902. Author of England under the Normans and Angevins; Charlemagne;
| | Ralph of Coggeshall. |
| H. Y. | Sir Henry Yule, K.C.S.I., C.B.- See the biographical article: Yule, Sir Henry.
| | Polo, Marco (in part); Prester John; Ramusio. |
| I. A. | Israel Abrahams, M.A.- Reader in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature in the University of Cambridge. Formerly President, Jewish Historical Society of England. Author of A Short History of Jewish Literature; Jewish Life in the Middle Ages; Judaism; &c.
| | Proselyte; Qaraites; Qaro; Raba Ben Joseph Ben Ḥama; Rabbah Bar Naḥmani; Rapoport, Samuel; Rashbam; Rashi. |
| J. A. B. | Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines, C.S.I.- President, Royal Statistical Society, 1909-1910. Census Commissioner under the Government of India, 1889-1893. Secretary to Royal Commission on Opium, 1894-1895. Author of Official Reports on Provincial Administration of Indian Census Operations; &c.
| | Population. |
| J. A. Bl. | John A. Black.- Press reader of the New Volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (10th ed.).
| | Proof-reading (in part). |
| J. A. H. | John Allen Howe, B.Sc.- Curator and Librarian of the Museum of Practical Geology, London. Author of The Geology of Building Stones.
| | Pre-Cambrian. |
| J. A. S. | John Addington Symonds, LL.D.- See the biographical article: Symonds, John A.
| | Pontanus, Jovianus. |
| J. E. S.* | John Edwin Sandys, M.A., Litt*.D., LL.D.- Public Orator in the University of Cambridge. Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. Fellow of the British Academy. Author of A History of Classical Scholarship; &c.
| | Porson (in part). |