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Rames, William (CS) The second mate of the Golden Mary. In Mr Steadiman’s opinion, he was ‘as good a sailor as [he was], and as trusty and kind a man as ever stepped’. (‘The Wreck of the Golden Mary’)

Rampart, Sir Charles (SB) Mr Tibbs’s commanding officer when he was in the volunteer corps in 1806. (‘Tales: The Boarding-House’)

Ramsey (PP) A ‘precious seedy-looking customer’, against whom Messrs Dodson and Fogg issued a writ and whose misfortunes the lawyers’ clerks humorously recount in the hearing of Mr Pickwick and Sam Weller. (20)

Rarx, Mr (CS) An old gentleman, who was a passenger on the Golden Mary. He was ‘a sordid and selfish character’, who became delirious and ungovernable after the shipwreck. (‘The Wreck of the Golden Mary’)

Ravender, Captain (CS) The brave captain of the Golden Mary, who dies of exposure in the long-boat. (‘The Wreck of the Golden Mary’)

Raybrock, Mrs (CS) A draper and postmistress in the village of Steepways. She was ‘a comely elderly woman, short of stature, plump of form, sparkling and dark of eye’. She has two sons, Alfred, a fisherman, and Hugh, a sailor, who is mistakenly thought to be lost at sea. Captain Jorgan brings Hugh’s ‘message from the sea’ (a letter found in a bottle) to Alfred. (‘A Message from the Sea’)

Raymond, Cousin (GE) One of the ‘toadies and humbugs’ who hang around Miss Havisham at Satis House. In his opinion, Matthew Pocket (who is not one of the ‘toadies’) ‘never had, and . . . never will have any sense of proprieties’. (11).