J E Ralph
According to directories, James Emerson Ralph (1908-91) had an office in Gower Street, London between 1952 and 1967.  He lived at Holmbury St Mary, Surrey.
Designed:  Horsham, - St John, Broadbridge Heath (1962-63) 

T D Randall
Terence Donovan Randall (b1923) was born at Leytonstone, Essex and trained at Chiswick and Twickenham Schools of Art.  Subsequently, he worked on the Festival of Britain in 1951 and also for Faithcraft (see under F Stephens), whose studio at 7 Tufton Street he used.  Subsequently he worked on his own account from Worcester Park, Surrey.
Glass: Forest Row

W Ranger
There are two possibilities for the William Ranger who repaired Lancing, St James and produced a design for a new aisle at Southwick church in 1833.  The first was primarily a builder, who was responsible from 1824 for the new St Peter, Victoria Gardens, designed by Sir C Barry.  The alternative, his son, is much better documented.  This William Ranger (1799/1800-1863), whose obituary appears in The Builder (21 p672), was a civil engineer, who reported to the Board of Health on conditions in towns and also designed two churches in Suffolk in the course of the 1830s (Colvin 4th ed p843).  The son worked mainly in London and as the W Ranger at Southwick is specifically said to be from Brighton, the father is the more likely.  There is no such statement in the case of Lancing, but in view of the relative youth of the son at the date it seems more likely to have been the work of the father also.  In that case he may be identified with the William Ranger who in 1832 (Pigot's Directory) and 1839 (Robson’s Directory) is listed at (1) St James Street; this is probably the same address as that of George Ranger, builder of 1 Upper St James’s Street, who is listed in PD of the same year, but the relationship between them is not known.  This George Ranger is probably not the same as George Ranger (b1808/13), who in 1841 was a coal merchant in Upper Bedford Street, Brighton, but they could be relatives.  Also possibly linked but certainly not identical are William Ranger of Beckley, a bricklayer in 1840, and William Ranger of Lewes and later Finsbury Pavement, to whom references are found between c1865 and 1887.  Even less is known about J Garrett, whose plans for a more extensive rebuilding of Southwick church in 1835 replaced Ranger's, but his name is linked elsewhere with Ranger, so their plans may have been connected here as well.   
Altered: Lancing, - St James (1827); Southwick (1833 - not carried out)  

T Rassell
Thomas Rassell prepared a design for the enlarging of St Andrew, Oxmarket, Chichester in 1856.  He may be presumed to be the same as the surveyor whose address was Washington Street, Summers Town, Chichester.  He never married and his name is also found in the records as Thomas Rasell or Russell (1803/04-1863). 
Enlargement: Chichester, - St Andrew Oxmarket (1856 – unexecuted)

J Rawlinson
John Rawlinson (1866/67-1934) was the son of a barrister and a pupil of Sir A W Blomfield.  He was elected as ARIBA and went into practice in 1891.  He lived in Chelsea and until 1924 had an office at 11 Adam Street, Adelphi (KD/L).  Some indication of his professional interests is shown by the fact that he was Honorary Secretary of the Ecclesiastical Surveyors Association.
Lit: BAL Biog file
Extended: Isfield (1893-94)

J B Rebecca
John Biagio Rebecca (c1777-1847) was born of an Italian artist father and lived in Worthing, where much of his work is to be found.  He was involved in the development of the resort, though he had property in London where he did work and also designed country houses, notably the remarkable Castle Goring, near Worthing, which is classical on one side and castellated on the other.  He also repaired and improved country houses, including Penshurst Place and Knebworth, Hertfordshire.  An early member of the then IBA, he resigned his fellowship in 1846.
Lit: M W D Norman: Biagio and John Biagio Rebecca – a Sketch towards a Biography, typescript in SAS Library, 2001
Designed: Worthing, - St Paul (1812)

C F Reeks
Charles Frederick Reeks (1821/22-1908) was a pupil of Sir James Pennethorne and then in the office of T Cubitt, who at the time was working in Brighton.  Reeks started in Hastings in partnership with his father and then from 1848 with A J Humbert whom he met when travelling in Italy.  In the same year the practice became associated with the Crown Estates and later the Board of Works (Proc RIBA) in Hastings.  He probably owed this to his links with Pennethorne and when after 1854 new work ceased because of the Crimean War, he became Receiver of the Crown Estates, in which office he remained until 1899.  In this capacity, he worked on various royal estates and whilst Humbert was mainly responsible for the royal mausolea at Windsor, Reeks may have had a hand by virtue of his position.  He continued in private practice, mainly in the Windsor area.  Humbert’s and Reeks’s most conspicuous work in Hastings must have been the chimney of the gasworks (later reconstructed), which was modelled on a mediaeval Italian tower. 
Lit: BAL Biog file; Obit: RIBAJ 15 p386
Restored: Bodiam (1853)

C Regnart
Charles Regnart (1749-1844) was the son of a sculptor of Flemish ancestry and was born in Bristol.  He moved to London and like so many of his kind, settled in the area of Fitzroy Square.  He produced many memorials which are to be found in most parts of England.  Some of them show considerable originality.
Memorials: Buxted, - St Margaret; Hartfield; Mayfield

A D Reid
Allan Douglas Reid (1898-1977) was the partner of A Young and in 1925, when he exhibited at the RA had an address in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.  Later addresses included Bedford Row and Helston, Cornwall.  Though Young was much older, Reid himself continued throughout the 1920s and 1930s to use the gothic style.  He did not retire until 1974, by which time his deeply traditional approach must have seemed very anachronistic.
Lit: BAL Biog file
Designed: Lancing, - St Michael (1924)

J Reid
John Reid was active in the 1950s as a woodcarver.
Fitting: Hastings, - St Leonard, Marina, font

S Reid
For Stuart Reid, see under C R B Godman and Kay.
Restored: Findon (1994)

P Rendl
Peter Rendl was a woodcarver of Oberammergau in 1931 and like J Mayr at an earlier date, also a leading performer in the Passion Play.
Fitting: Brighton and Hove, - St Michael, rood

W B Reynolds
William Bainbridge Reynolds (1855-1935) was the son of a professor of mathematics but information about his earliest years is otherwise sparse.  However, he appears to have trained as an architect under G E Street and then worked in J P Seddon’s office.  He turned to the applied arts, mainly metalworking, and founded his own company in Clapham in the 1890s.  This proved a success and lasted until his retirement to Hove.  His work was in the Arts and Crafts idiom and he designed glass for E and C O’Neill.
Lit: DNB
Fitting: Brighton and Hove, - St Paul, memorial
Glass: Brighton and Hove, - St Helen, Hangleton; - St Patrick

Sir W Reynolds-Stephens
Sir William Reynolds-Stephens (1862-1943) was born in Detroit, USA of British parentage, but returned to Britain in his youth.  ‘Reynolds’ was originally his second name, but from 1891 he hyphenated it.  After early training as an engineer, he studied as a painter at the RA Schools.  Later he moved increasingly to sculpture, where he came under the influence of the late Pre-Raphaelites and Alfred Gilbert, whom he followed in his use of materials of contrasting colour.  He also designed furniture and some stained glass and was a member of the Art Workers Guild.  He devised complete decorative schemes, both for churches and houses, of which the most remarkable was Great Warley church in Essex.  He became an honorary ARIBA in recognition of his involvement with such schemes.  
Lit: DNB; C Sherlock: William Reynolds-Stephens, 2002 (Privately printed; copy in NAL); NAL Information file
Memorial: Newtimber

P Reyntiens
Patrick Reyntiens (b1925) trained under J E Nuttgens and collaborated closely with J Piper though none of the resulting glass is in Sussex.  He worked in the High Wycombe area before moving to Somerset.  He has also produced metalwork and written about making stained glass.
Glass: Hastings, - St Leonard, Marina

S Ricci
Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734) was a Venetian painter, who travelled widely in Europe.  In the course of this he spent the years 1708-10 and 1712-16 in England, but left after failing to win the commission for painting the dome of St Paul's.  The strongest influence on him was the C16 painter Veronese and Ricci in turn was an important influence on later C18 Venetians like G B Tiepolo.
Painting: Thakeham (formerly)

T Rice
All that is known of Thomas Rice is three monuments, dating from between 1823 and 1840.  His workshop was in Brompton, then starting to be developed.
Memorial: Amberley

W G Rich
The artist named W G Rich is recorded on only one occasion, in 1893, and has not been identified for sure.  He may be linked to or identical with Alfred William Rich (1856-1921), a Sussex landscape-painter who was a heraldic draughtsman until he took up the study of painting in 1890 and studied at the Slade School.  Against his being the same as W G Rich is that he was principally a watercolourist.
Wall paintings: Bexhill - St Peter

E Richardson
Edward Richardson (1812-69) first appears in 1832, when he entered the RA Schools.  Starting in 1836 he exhibited at the RA for 30 years, showing a wide range of works including monuments.  He became known as a restorer of mediaeval monuments, including two in Chichester cathedral. though not without controversy - he failed to be elected to the Society of Antiquaries in consequence.  He died in Brighton.
Memorial: Hastings, -  All Saints

S Richardson
Samuel Richardson (1805/06-77) is recorded as a bricklayer of Frant in 1861 and 1871.  A bricklayer named William Richardson in 1881 is probably a son.
Extended: Frant (1868)

Riches and Esam
References to Riches and Esam as such are found in Bexhill between 1884 and 1891.  The partners are most easily to be identified with Francis Robert Riches (1868/69-after 1901) and Frank Esam.  Frank Esam is listed alone at 1 Station Street in 1887 (KD) and is last mentioned in 1891 (KD), when he was at 21A Havelock Road, Hastings.  Riches was born in Suffolk and is more fully documented over a longer period.  The firm of Riches and Co was in 1885 (ESDBB) listed as architects and surveyors of 1 Western Road and in 1887 was at Station Yard, Bexhill (KD).  By 1890 this may be presumed to have merged into the partnership of Riches and Gray of Devonshire Terrace (KD), which had moved by 1911 to 21 Sea Road, Bexhill.  They were auctioneers, estate agents, architects and surveyors, and still existed in 1973 (Stubbs).  In 1891 Riches called himself an auctioneer, but in 1901 he was living at Balham, described as an estate agent manager.  There are, however, some obvious discrepancies.  Francis Riches would have been only about 16 when the firm of Riches and Co is first mentioned, which suggests that there were more senior relatives working in the town in the same profession, though Francis Robert is the only person of the name listed in ESDBB.  Furthermore, both putative partners maintained their own premises throughout the period, suggesting that they came together informally, as happened with other practices on occasion, without forming a partnership, notwithstanding the evidence of a contemporary record in The Builder. 
Altered: Bexhill, - St Mark, Little Common (1884)

Sir W B Richmond
Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) was, like his father, a painter.  He worked in an idiom close to that of Lord Leighton and made designs for stained glass, which he commissioned J Powell and Sons to make.  They also made what became his most lasting work, the mosaics for St Paul's.  He travelled, especially in Italy, about which he produced books and exhibited views.
Painting: Brighton and Hove, - St Andrew, Church Road, Hove

T Rickman
Thomas Rickman (1825/26-49) was related to Thomas Rickman (1772-1841), who was one of the leading early C19 architects in the gothic style, about which he wrote extensively - he invented the standard terms such as Norman and Early English.  It is doubtful whether his younger namesake had time to achieve much before his early death.  In particular, his plans for the refitting of Harting at the age of 19 may well have been the project of a student or pupil rather than a serious one.
Refitted: Harting (1845 - probably never carried out)

W Ride
William Ride (1722/23-78) was a surveyor in London, who was probably born in Haslemere.  He was employed by several noblemen, including the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood.  He also studied the antiquities of Chichester, where he probably restored the Market Cross.
Designed: Chichester, - St Pancras (1749-50)

L S Rider
Lionel Sidney Rider (1916-2000) became the partner of the Bexhill architect Ernest Bunce, who had been active in the extensive house-building industry of the town since the 1930s.  There may have been a link with the long-established firm of Riches and Gray (see above under Riches and Esam), as they shared an address. 
Repaired: Hooe (1959 and 1978); Ninfield (1957 etc and 1972) 

L W Ridge
Lacy William Ridge (1839-1922) was Chichester Diocesan Surveyor and Architect from 1871 to 1917.  He was born in London of Sussex ancestry and after training under P C Hardwick was B Ferrey’s assistant.  In 1863 he passed the RIBA’s Architectural Examination in its first year and won its Medal of Merit in 1864 for measured drawings of Boxgrove.  However, his practice was in London (where he was Mayor of Holborn and in the Volunteers) until he retired to Worthing in 1911 and gave up all but ecclesiastical work.  From 1901-11 his partner was William Charles Waymouth, who practised mainly in Hertfordshire.  Ridge’s churches were gothic, in plain brick or flint and he was a more cautious restorer than his predecessor, G M Hills.
Lit: BAL Biog file; Obit: RIBAJ 29 p546
Designed: Ashurst Wood (1884); Blackham (1902 as Withyham); Brighton and Hove, - St Alban (1910); - St Matthias (1907-11); Burgess Hill, - St Andrew (1903-08 - incomplete); Holtye Common (1892); Hurst Green (1884); Mannings Heath (1881 - attr); Shoreham, - St Giles (1906 - attr); Turners Hill (1894-97); Worthing, - St Symphorian, Durrington (1914-15 – probable)
Restored/altered: Alfriston (1888); Appledram (1877 and 1890); Beddingham (1906); Bepton (1878); Boxgrove (1886); Bury (1893); Earnley (1873-74 and 1881); East Marden (1875-77); Eastbourne, - St Mary (1908); East Wittering, - Assumption (1875-76); Egdean (1885); Hailsham (1887-89); Harting (1892); Haywards Heath, - St Wilfrid (1908); Heathfield (1892); Hooe (1890); Linch (1886); Lullington (1895); Midhurst (1882-83); North Marden (1886-87); Parham (1890 - may only have advised); Pevensey (nd); Poynings (1882); Racton (1875-76); Seaford (1902); Sidlesham (1890-91); Slinfold (1898); Southwick (1888 and 1896); Stedham (1885 and 1894); Sullington (1873); Tangmere (1885); Twineham (1894); Uckfield (1888 - plans); West Thorney (1886); Willingdon (1904)

T E Roberts
Terence Edward Roberts was a member of Roth and Partners (see below) in Chichester in the 1970s and subsequently moved to C Mercer Architects Co-operative Ltd, then of that city.
Repaired: West Thorney (1975)

W Robertson
William Robertson (1816/17-80) was a plumber and painter of High Street, Hurstpierpoint in 1871.  Despite some ambiguity in the record of his work at Keymer, he was pretty clearly an artisan rather than an artist. 
Painting: Keymer, chancel decoration 

A W Robinson
Arnold Wathen Robinson (1888-1955) was a pupil and then assistant of C Whall, after which he joined the Glass House (see under Lowndes and Drury), where he was active between 1912 and 1923.  In the latter year he bought the long established Bristol firm of J Bell and Son, where he was followed by his son, Geoffrey (b 1935).   During World War II he was assisted by another of Whall's pupils, E Woore.
Glass: Burwash

C Robinson
Chris Robinson established the Brighton practice of drp Architects in 1983, together with Alan Deacon and others.  This went into liquidation in 2009 and two new practices emerged, one of them Robinson and Deacon which still uses the former, larger practice's address in Upper Lewes Road, Brighton.  They cover a wide range of projects, including both heritage and housing.
Remodelled: Worthing, - St Paul (as social centre) (completed 2010)

Sir T Robinson
Sir Thomas Robinson (c1702-77) was a gentleman architect and nicknamed ‘Long Tom’ on account of his height.  He travelled in Italy and Greece, but his extravagance led to his obtaining the position of Governor of Barbados, where he designed a number of buildings.  On return he became the main shareholder of the Ranelagh Gardens in London, which proved more lucrative, but he nevertheless had to sell the family seat, Rokeby Park in Yorkshire, which he had designed.  Unsurprisingly, as a friend of Lord Burlington, he was an enthusiastic supporter of the Palladian style, using it to complete Castle Howard.  Among the buildings he designed was a gateway at Bishop Auckland palace for Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham, whose family owned Glynde Place.
Lit: D Harbron: Sir Thomas Robinson Architect: 1700-1770.  The Modern Proteus, AR 80 (1936) pp167-70; M McCarthy: Sir Thomas Robinson, an Original English Palladian, Architectura, Munich 10/1(1980) pp38-57; BAL Biog file
Designed: Glynde (1763-65)
Extended: Laughton (1764-65) (attr)

W Robinson
William Robinson (c1720-75) was born the son of a gardener in Durham and moved to London, where he held public positions as architect and surveyor, including clerk of the works at Greenwich Hospital.  The public buildings he designed were Palladian in style, but in other respects he was a pioneer in the gothic style – he was employed by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill and designed at least one gothic church (Stone, Staffordshire).
Lit: DNB
Extended: Laughton (1764-65) (attr)

P A Robson
Philip Appleby Robson (1871-1951) was articled to his father E R Robson, famed as the first architect to the London School Board from 1870, and joined J L Pearson’s (see above) office in c1890.  He was in private practice in Victoria Embankment, Westminster by about 1898, where he remained until 1939, though from 1919-22 he also had an address in Manchester (CCL) as an architect and designer.  He lived near East Grinstead, where from 1905 there was a branch of his practice – as also in Tunbridge Wells.  He had at least two partners - from 1905-10 one Worthington and from 1928-32 F G Percy; however, from 1916 to 1923 he is listed at an address on Victoria Embankment in KD/L as 'P A Robson and Partner', so either the above dates are incorrect or there was another, unrecorded partner.  According to his obituary, he designed two churches in south east London and several civic buildings at Eastbourne, including the public library (since replaced).  He also wrote about architecture, notably the volume in the Bell's Cathedrals Series about St David's (1901).
Lit: BAL Biog file; Obit: RIBAJ (April 1952) p230
Restored: Battle (nd)
Fittings: East Grinstead, - St Mary, lectern and font; Selsey, - St Peter (unspecified)

---- Roelant
From the name, this early C17 glazier, known only from a single reference at Stopham, was probably Flemish in origin.  He is likely to have been based in London or Southwark.
Glass: Stopham

H C Rogers
Henry Cornwallis Rogers (1865-1929) was born in Cornwall, but moved to London and joined the office of George and Peto in 1886.  By 1891 he was living alone in Knightsbridge and later became partner of C B Bone and F A Coles.
Lit: BAL Biog file
Altered: Brighton and Hove, - St John Baptist, Palmeira Square, Hove (1906-07)

M Rogers
Mark Rogers was a woodcarver, who is first recorded in 1881 and whose address in 1920, when he appears for the last time, was 74 Grandison Road, Clapham Common (CCL).
Fitting: Brighton, - St Martin, pulpit panels

W Rogerson
William Rogerson had a yard in Gerrard Street, Soho, where he can be found from c1794, the date of his earliest known work, until his bankruptcy in 1800.  Only five works are known for certain, but these are widely scattered, including one at Bridgetown, Barbados.
Memorial: Lewes, - St Thomas a Becket

W H Romayne-Walker                      W H Romaine-Walker
William Henry Romayne-Walker (1854-1940) (his spelling of his name is inconsistent - according to his BAL Biog file he preferred to use a Y, but he appears in KD/L (for which he had presumably provided the information) with an I and the name is thus found in other contemporary records), was articled to G E Street after school at Lancing.  Some of his earliest buildings were mission halls, but he became a well known society architect, designing mostly country houses and public buildings, including extensions to the Tate Gallery and British Museum for Lord Duveen in a pompous classical style that recalls contemporary work in the USA.  His partners or collaborators included in 1880 J T Hanson, A W Tanner from 1883 to 1891, from 1905 to 1909 F W Besant and from 1911 Gilbert H Jenkins - from 1919 to at least 1924 their address was 4 Old Bond Street (KD/L).  He took great care over the decoration of the houses he designed and most of his church work consisted of schemes of decoration.  He died at St Leonards.
Lit:  BAL Biog file
Designed: South Lancing (1880 – with J T Hanson – not built)
Restored/altered: Brighton and Hove, - St Michael (1914); Hastings, - All Saints (nd); - Holy Trinity (1890-92)
Fitting: Lodsworth, reredos

M E A Rope
Margaret Edith (Aldrich) Rope (1891-1988) came from a Suffolk farming background, but an unusual one since it included several woman-artists, including E M Rope, a sculptor.  She studied at the Central School in London and also studied glassmaking with Alfred Drury at the Glass House, where she had a studio and came under the influence of W Geddes.  She took over this studio from her cousin, Margaret Agnes Rope, who designed stained glass before becoming a Carmelite nun and whom she had assisted from 1911.  M E A Rope was also a painter and added the 'Aldrich' (her mother's maiden name) to differentiate herself from her cousin.  She belonged to the group of glassmakers in Putney, who were influenced by C Whall.  She lived at three addresses in Deodar Road – at one time in a flat there that belonged to C Townsend and J Howson - and spent part of World War II with them at Storrington.  In later life she shared a kiln with R de Montmorency and was assisted by her former pupil, C Dawson.
Source: www.arthur.rope.clara.net
Glass: Bolney

F Rosier
Frank Rosier (1867-1946) was a woodcarver of Frant.  Arthur Mee (p168) visited his busy workshop in the early 1930s.  Notwithstanding his industry, he was probably the same as the man of the name who was sub-postmaster in 1909 and 1915 (KD).
Fittings: Frant, choir stalls and reredos; Mayfield, parclose; Wadhurst, altar.

J Ross
Jane Ross (b1931) was the maiden name of J Gray.
Glass: Framfield; Sullington

D G Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) was the son of an Italian refugee, who was briefly associated with the pre-Raphaelites and thereafter became best known as a painter of often voluptuous and highly distinctive women.  He was also a poet and was associated with W Morris, designing some glass for his company in its first years.
Lit: A C Sewter: D G Rossetti's Designs for Stained Glass, JSMGP 13/2 pp419-24
Glass: Brighton and Hove, - Annunciation; - St Michael (both designed for Morris and Co)

J C F Rossi 
John Charles Felix Rossi (1762-1839) was born in Nottingham of an Italian father.  He found his way to London, where he studied under Giovanni Battista Locatelli, an Italian sculptor settled there, before entering the RA Schools in 1781.  From 1785 he spent three years in Rome.  After his return he seems to have had something of a crisis of confidence, during which he mostly modelled figures for a clock-maker and produced many designs for Mrs E Coade to make in her 'stone' - he even attempted to produce something similar.  By 1798 he was sufficiently well regarded to be elected ARA, followed in 1802 by advancement to RA.  During the same period he produced several large-scale works of public sculpture, including some at St Paul's.  In later life Rossi experienced perennial financial problems, until he retired in 1835.
Memorials: East Grinstead, - St Swithun; Tillington

S Roth                              Roth and Partners
A Chichester practice, which emerged from a partnership between H Sherwood and Stanley Henry James Roth (1907-93) – the first joint reference was in 1938.  By 1951 the practice was called Stanley Roth, Tetley and Felce, suggesting that Sherwood had departed, and until at least 1958 it had an address at 60 West Street, Brighton (KD).  Tetley was P I D Tetley (PT), who worked with Roth on several churches.  At some point after 1958 it became known as Roth and Partners and was based in Chichester only.  Like Sherwood, Roth designed churches and worked on them, but such work fell increasingly to Geoffrey Claridge (GC).  He joined the practice at the age of 18 and became a partner in 1964, though Roth was still active in 1970, when he signed the ICBS completion certificate for Sutton.  T E Roberts (see this section above) was a member of the firm in the 1970s.
Repaired/adapted and extended: Chichester - St Paul (1949 by Roth – not executed); Clapham (1951 and 1969-71 - GC); Easebourne (1952-53); East Lavant (1950 and 1961); East Preston (1982); Felpham (1938-39); Itchingfield (1952); Lyminster (1949-50); Madehurst (1957 - with PT); Middleton (1977-78 -GC); Mid Lavant (1981 - GC); Patching (1969 - GC); Portslade, - St Andrew (1952-54); - St Nicholas (1957 onwards - with PT); Rustington (1953 - GC); Southwater (1952); Sutton (1970 - GC); West Thorney (1975); Worth (1987-88 - GC); Worthing, - St Symphorian, Durrington (1961-62) 

E C Rouse
Edward Clive Rouse (1901-97) was the best known mid-C20 restorer of wall-paintings and wrote about them.  He trained as an artist at the St Martin’s School of Art and worked in his earlier career with E W Tristram.   Following Tristram he made careful watercolour copies of the paintings on which he worked, but he played a prominent part in the move in the 1950s away from the heavy wax preservatives favoured by Tristram and devised methods of removing them.  Though he lived in Buckinghamshire, he was a member of the Chichester Diocesan Advisory Committee.
Obit: The Times, 8 Aug 1997
Restored: Battle, wall paintings

H Rouw
Henry Rouw first appears in the records in 1795 and died in 1855.  He is said to have been a wax modeller and painter, mainly of portraits, as well as a sculptor and was the brother of P Rouw the younger (see immediately below).
Memorial: Brightling

P Rouw
Peter Rouw the younger (1770-1852) was the brother of Henry Rouw (see immediately above) - their father, Peter the elder, was also a sculptor.  He entered the RA Schools in 1788 and exhibited there until 1838.  He was a friend of J Nollekens and designed many monuments and medals.  He had an address in Norton Street, Fitzroy Square.  in later life he lost the sight of one eye and experienced financial problems.
Memorials: Brightling; Salehurst; Worth (3) 

H E Rumble
Henry Ewan (or Evan or Euean) Rumble (1834-1902) was the son of an architect and was born at Marlow.  He practised briefly in London in 1858 and again in 1874 (KD/L), though mostly he lived and worked at Eastbourne at 27 Hyde Gardens.  However, he was in Newbury in 1863, when the Council of the RIBA approved his candidature as an Associate, though he was never elected.  His son, Harry (b 1866/67), also an architect, emigrated to Australia.
Lit: BAL Biog file
Designed: Eastbourne, - St John Meads (1868-69 – rebuilt)
Restored: Alfriston (1875 and 1876); Chichester, - St Bartholomew (1878 - probably not carried out); Hailsham (1869-76); Jevington (1873); West Dean (E) (1878); Westham (1873)

Sir H G Rushbury
Sir Henry George Rushbury (1889-1968) was born near Birmingham, where he studied, and then assisted Henry Payne in the Cotswolds with his designs for stained glass and murals.  He went to London in 1912, where he learned etching and was also an accomplished watercolourist and draughtsman.  He was a war artist in both world wars and exhibited frequently at the RA – he became a Royal Academician in 1936, one of the few at the time to concentrate on graphics.  With his particular skills he was a fine illustrator of books, mostly topographical ones.  He lived mostly in Chelsea, where he was a pillar of the artistic community, though he died at Lewes.
Lit: DNB; Obit: The Times 6 July 1968
Glass: Felpham

T H Rushforth
Thomas Henry Rushforth (1827-1908) was born in or near Manchester, but was living in London by 1849, when he first exhibited at the RA.  On the evidence of the designs submitted, as shown in Graves, he specialised in churches, but their dates, confirmed by ICBS records, suggest this was chiefly during the earlier part of his career, which ended when he resigned from the RIBA in 1869.  He then worked with C L Luck, designing mostly workhouses and other utilitarian buildings, though he did some work on his own; in 1883 his office was at 12 Regent Street (BA 19 2 February 1883 p i).  Census returns suggest he spent much of his later years in the north with his brothers-in-law John and William Baldwin, worsted manufacturers.  In 1881, he was visiting John in Elland, Yorkshire, in 1891 he was retired and sharing a house with William in North Meol near Southport and in 1901 they were both back in Yorkshire at Halifax. 
Designed: Tidebrook (1855-56)

H T Rushton
Henry Theodore Rushton (1913-98) was the son of T J Rushton (see immediately below), whose practice he joined and continued until his own death.  He was diocesan surveyor for Chelmsford.
Repaired: Fernhurst (1958-60 with father)

T J Rushton
Thomas Johnson Rushton (1878-1966) became the partner of Sir C Nicholson in 1927 and was responsible for several commissions, including the chapel of Queen Margaret School, Scarborough in 1932, for the Woodard Corporation.  He carried on the practice after Nicholson's death in 1949, at its former office in Lincoln's Inn.  He was joined by his son, H T Rushton (see immediately above) and the two worked closely.  The father became diocesan surveyor for Winchester and designed churches and their fittings extensively.  The practice also had offices in Grimsby and Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Lit: BAL Biog file
Repaired: Fernhurst (1958-60 with son)

G M Russell
The Rev George Munro Russell (1848/49-1927) was Vicar of Upper Dicker from 1894-1924.  He was born at Dorking, Surrey and went to South Africa, probably as a missionary, where he was ordained deacon in 1877.  Possibly during this time he acquired his skill in woodworking; as his father was a professor of music who had been prosperous enough to send his son to a small boarding school in Ewell (1861), it is unlikely that he would have learned it as a trade in his youth.  He returned to England and was curate of Beddingham with Firle when ordained priest in 1891.  He retired to Tunbridge Wells, where he died.
Fittings: Upper Dicker, porch, screen and pulpit

J M Rysbrack
John Michael Rysbrack (always called Michael) (1694-1770) was born in Antwerp, the son of a landscape artist who had spent some years in England in the 1670s.  He trained and worked there before coming to London in 1720, where he established his studio in Vere Street and was a leading member of the artistic community, being particularly close to the architect James Gibbs.  He seems never to have visited Italy.  His Netherlandish training showed itself in a liking for work in low relief and his use of terra cotta was widely admired.  In his prime in the 1730s he was the best known sculptor in England, working with architects like Burlington and William Kent as well as Gibbs, and produced some of the grandest monuments of the age.  However, though he sought in the 1750s to adapt to the neo-classical style favoured by Robert Adam, by his retirement around 1765 he was seen as old-fashioned.  He produced statues, busts and memorials in large quantities and architectural work such as fireplaces.
Lit: K Eustace: Michael Rysbrack, 1694-1770, Bristol, 1982; M Webb: Michael Rysbrack, Sculptor, 1954
Memorials: Racton (bust only - attr); Warbleton (attr); West Grinstead