Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, HOWELL (Hywel Tudur; 1840 - 1922), poet, preacher and inventor the daughter of Hafod-y-wern, Clynnog, where he farmed and was pastor at Seion, Gyrn Coch and Capel Uchaf (CM) churches. They had five children. After his wife's death he married the sister of the Rev. R. Dewi Williams, a son and daughter were born to them. He died suddenly on 3 June 1922 and was buried in the cemetery of Clynnog church, though it had been his wish to be interred in the place where
ROBERTS, HUGH GORDON (1885 - 1961), surgeon and missionary of Assam put together; his name became known throughout the province. With the assistance of Margaret Buckley and others he established a nursing school there. He was a member of Assam's Legislative Council, 1921-24, a prominent member of the Assam Medical Council 1920-43, and president of the Assam Branch of the British Medical Association, 1931-33. He came to Britain in 1945 and was general
ROBERTS, JOHN (1775 - 1829), cleric and author further under Knight, William Bruce). Yet, though no lover of Methodism, Roberts had no quarrel with Thomas Charles's general aims; indeed, he warmly supported the Bible Society and the Sunday school movement. A letter of his (printed in D. E. Jenkins, Thomas Charles, iii, 302-3) shows that (with the consent of his bishop, Cleaver) he was willing to adopt quasi-Methodist practices such as prayer
ROBERTS, JOHN (1753 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister , he made his home in that neighbourhood. He was ordained minister at the first Calvinistic Methodist ordination, 1811; and from 1809 until he died 3 November 1834, at the age of 82, continued to live at Llangwm. He was a short man but possessed a strong constitution. He took part in the preparation of the Calvinistic Methodist Confession of Faith and the Rules of Discipline in 1823, and was regarded
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Colliery just two months before its sister-pit, the Universal Colliery Senghenydd, exploded claiming 439 lives. He attended the local Welsh Independent Chapel where he met May Jones and on 3 April 1920 they were married at Eglwysilan Parish Church. They lost their firstborn daughter in infancy during the 1921 miners' lock-out. Roberts was inspired in the by-election of August 1921 in the Caerphilly
ROBERTS, MICHAEL (d. 1679), principal of Jesus College, Oxford account) as chancellor of the university who finally dismissed Roberts in 1657. He kept on living at Oxford till his death on 3 May 1679, engaged in peevish litigation with the authorities of Jesus, or in bad-tempered quarrels with his relatives in Anglesey, or in unsuccessful bids for promotion in the Church. He was a stiff-necked man, keen on his own way, destitute of high ideals. But this must not
ROBERTS, RICHARD (1789 - 1864), inventor Llanymynech limestone quarries; when about 20 he was a pattern-maker in a Bilston iron-works; in 1814, after working at Liverpool and Manchester (to evade enlistment in the militia), he walked to London to work in iron-works at Lambeth; but in 1816 he returned to Manchester and took a small workshop in Deansgate. About 1822-3 he took a partner named Hill (for two of the subsequent years he was at Mulhouse
ROBERTS, RICHARD (GWYLFA; 1871 - 1935), Congregational minister, poet and prose-writer Born 24 May (according to Who's Who in Wales, presumably his own statement), but according to some obituary notices, 22 May 1871, at Penmaenmawr, son of Richard and Ellen Roberts. He was at ysgol ramadeg Botwnnog, and in 1892 went to Bala-Bangor Independent College. In 1895 he became pastor at Felinheli ('Port Dinorwic'); from 1898 till his death he was pastor of Tabernacle church, Llanelly. He
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1840 - 1871), musician Born 24 May 1840 at Tanysgafell, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. He was 12 when his father died and he began to work in a quarry. He was taught the rudiments of music by Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid). Henry Samuel Hayden then gave him some instruction and the boy was admitted, when he was 14, to the training college at Caernarvon where Hayden taught; he afterwards followed Hayden in his post. In
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVID (1820 - 1893), Baptist minister Born 3 November 1820 in a house near the old Sardis chapel, Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire. He and John Jones (1821 - 1879; see Spinther, iv, 327-9) were cousins. He received very little education as a child nor was he given any college training after he had started to preach. He was baptised at the age of 12 and began to preach in 1839. He spent a short time as a missionary for the Caernarvonshire
ROBERTS, ROBERT ELLIS VAUGHAN (1888 - 1962), headmaster and naturalist Born at Bryn Melyn, Rhyduchaf, near Bala, Merionethshire, 24 March 1888, son of William Roberts. Educated at Bala grammar school for boys and graduating in the sciences from University College, Bangor in 1909, he began his teaching career in Denbigh, Clocaenog, and Rhos-ddu, Wrexham, and in 1920 was appointed headmaster of Llanarmon-yn-Iâl primary school, one year after the retirement of the
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer , must have laid a restraint upon him in the subsequent years. A long illness in 1928-9 ended with his death on 3 January 1930. He was a man of unusually wide and modern reading, chiefly, of course, in philosophy (especially psychology) and theology. His editorship of Seren Gomer (1909-11) was cut short by the enforced retirement already mentioned, but later on he contributed much to the periodical

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