Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, EMMANUEL BERWYN (1869 - 1951), minister (Meth.) . He went to Corris in 1900, and there married Annie Roberts, adopted daughter of David and Ellen Roberts, Waterloo House, Caernarfon. They had four children, 2 girls, who married Wesleyan ministers, and two sons, who became local preachers. He served twelve circuits; he was secretary to the Second Province of North Wales from 1914 to 1933, Chairman of the Province from 1933 to 1936, and President of
ROBERTS, EMRYS OWEN (1910 - 1990), Liberal politician and public servant father. They lived at Bryn Dedwydd, Dolgellau, at Court House, Basil Street, London, and 8 Kent House, 62 Holland Park Avenue, London W11. His papers are at the National Library of Wales. He died on 29 October 1990.
ROBERTS, EVAN JOHN (Y Diwygiwr, the Revivalist; 1878 - 1951), revivalist preacher Born 8 June 1878 at Island House, Bwlchmynydd, Loughor, Glamorganshire, son of Henry and Hannah Roberts. He worked as a coalminer at Loughor and Mountain Ash when he was young, and became apprenticed to a blacksmith in 1902. He was an exceptionally gifted young man, attaining a high standard of culture through self-discipline. He had spiritual experiences at times, and he confessed to having
ROBERTS, Sir GEORGE FOSSETT (1870 - 1954), soldier, politician and administrator Aberystwyth, and for a time at Laura Place in the town. He died 8 April 1954 at Glan-paith, the funeral service was held at Llanbadarn church and his remains were buried at Aberystwyth cemetery. There is a bronze memorial plaque at the National Library of Wales.
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator death (2): her sister, Caryl Eryl Hughes on 28 July 1954. He died 13 August 1962 in Menai Bridge and was buried in Llantysilio churchyard, Anglesey.
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet Born 2 March 1912, at Arwenfa, Afonwen, Caernarfonshire, son of Edward and Catherine Roberts. He was educated at the elementary school, Chwilog, the grammar school, Pwllheli and University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he graduated B.A. (2nd-class honours) in Hebrew 1934, M.A. 1936. In 1935-36 he was assistant lecturer in Semitic Studies, University College of N. Wales, Bangor. He began
ROBERTS, GWEN REES (1916 - 2002), missionary and teacher Gwen Rees Roberts was born on 2 March 1916 in Morfa Nefyn, Llŷn, the daughter of Hugh Griffith Roberts (died c.1940) and his wife Gwen Rees Roberts. Her mother died aged 31 within a few days of her birth, and approximately three years later, her father remarried a widow whose daughter, Emily, was eight years older than Gwen. The family was further expanded by the birth of a son, Hugh Wilson
ROBERTS, HUGH (1644? - 1702), Quaker Penn in order to discuss the formation of a Welsh settlement in Pennsylvania and he joined with sixteen others from the neighbourhood of Bala in the purchase of parcels of land in what came to be called ' Merion ' (in the ' Welsh Tract') in Pennsylvania; it was he who led the second group of settlers from Merioneth - he and his family receiving, 2 May 1683, a ticket of membership and ownership which
ROBERTS, JOHN (Minimus; 1808 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author cemetery, Liverpool. A daughter survived him. Minimus wrote much for the C.M. periodicals, e.g. Y Traethodydd and Y Drysorfa - he edited the latter in 1846, and afterwards, jointly with Roger Edwards, till 1852. With Richard Williams (1802 - 1842) he edited Y Pregethwr, 1835-8. He collaborated with John Jones (1790 - 1855) in a biography of John Elias, and wrote two other biographies; he also wrote hymns
ROBERTS, JOHN (J.R.; 1804 - 1884), Independent minister and author and a Calvinist. He does not appear to have been at all happy there, and within three years had accepted the invitation of his mother-church to assist his father and his brother 'S.R..' After his father's death he was ordained, 8 October 1835, as joint minister with his brother. He spent a year (1838-9) as minister of Llansantsiôr and Moelfre near Abergele, but returned to Llanbryn-mair, where he
ROBERTS, JOHN (1753 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister as a very able organizer and secretary. Although he had not the fiery eloquence of his brother, Robert Roberts, he was a powerful and fluent preacher, and there were not many who preached so regularly and for so many years in the Association meetings of his denomination both in North and South Wales as he did. He was born 8 August 1753; Michael Roberts was his son.
ROBERTS, JOHN (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and historian philosophy of the history of the denomination, which was published in Welsh (1931), and in English under the title The Calvinistic Methodism of Wales (1934). (See again R.T. Jenkin's assessment of this work which placed him in the forefront of historians of the Presbyterian Church, ibid., 41-2). He contributed numerous articles to Y Goleuad, and to the periodicals of his denomination. His most valuable

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