| W. E. A. A. | William Edward Armytage Axon, LL.D.- Formerly Deputy Chief Librarian of the Manchester Free Libraries. On Literary Staff of Manchester Guardian, 1874-1905. Member of the Gorsedd, with the bardic name of Manceinion. Author of Annals of Manchester; &c.
| | Roscoe, William. |
| W. H. F. | Sir William H. Flower, F.R.S.- See the biographical article: Flower, Sir W. H.
| | Rhinoceros (in part). |
| W. J. H.* | William James Hughan.- Past S.G.D. of the Grand Lodge of England. Author of Origin of the English Rite of Freemasonry.
| | Rosicrucianism. |
| W. M.-L. | Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Ph.D.- Hofrat of the Austrian Empire. Professor of Romance Philology in the University of Vienna. Author of Grammatik der Romanischen Sprachen; &c.
| | Romance Languages. |
| W. M. R. | William Michael Rossetti.- See the biographical article: Rossetti, Dante G.
| | Ribera, Giuseppe; Rosa, Salvator. |
| W. P. C. | William Prideaux Courtney.- See the biographical article: Courtney, Baron.
| | Rosslyn, Earl of; Russell, 1st Earl. |
| W. P. P. L. | William Pitt Preble Longfellow.- Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Editor of the American Architect. Author of Cyclopaedia of Architecture in Italy, Greece and the Levant; &c.
| | Richardson, Henry Hobson. |
| W. R. D. | Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.C.S.- Director of the Imperial Institute. President of the International Association of Tropical Agriculture. Member of the Advisory Committee for Tropical Agriculture, Colonial Office.
| | Rubber. |
| W. R. K. | Rt. Hon. Sir William Rann Kennedy, LL.D.- Lord of Appeal. Hon. Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Fellow of the British Academy. Judge of King’s Bench Division of High Court of justice, 1892-1907.
| | Russell of Killowen, Lord. |
| W. R. M. | William Richard Morfill, M.A. (d. 1910).- Formerly Professor of Russian and the other Slavonic Languages in the University of Oxford. Curator of the Taylorian Institution, Oxford. Author of Russia; Slavonic Literature; &c.
| | Russian Literature. |
| W. R. S. | William Robertson Smith, LL.D.- See the biographical article: Smith, William Robertson.
| | Reuchlin; Ruth, Book of (in part); Sabbath (in part). |