Chapter Random to Rattlin of R by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Charles Ratcliffe, clerk of sir Stephen Bertram, discharged because he had a pretty sister, and sir Stephen had a young son. Charles supported his widowed mother and his sister by his earnings. He rescued Sheva, the Jew, from a howling London mob, and was left the heir of the old man’s property.

Miss [Eliza] Ratcliffe, sister of Charles, clandestinely married to Charles Bertram, and given £10,000 by the Jew to reconcile sir Stephen Bertram to the alliance. She was handsome, virtuous, and elegant, mild, modest, and gentle.—Cumberland: The Few (1776).

Rathmor, chief of Clutha (the Clyde), and father of Calthon and Colmar. Dunthalmo lord of Teutha “came in his pride against him,” and was overcome, whereupon his anger rose, and he went by night with his warriors, and slew Rathmor in his own halls, where his feasts had so often been spread for strangers.—Ossian: Calthon and Colmal.

Rattlin (Jack), a famous naval character in Smollett’s Roderick Random. Tom Bowling is in the same novel (1749).