ROBERTS, ROBERT (1774 - 1849), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymnist
Date of birth: 1774
Date of death: 1849
Spouse: Roberts
Gender: Male
Occupation: Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymnist
Area of activity: Poetry; Religion
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
Born at S. Asaph, and given a good general education, he became a whitesmith. He seems to have led an irregular life until he was converted to religion under the preaching of Robert Prys (1738 - 1809) of Plas-winter; he thereupon joined the Methodists, despite his father's opposition; and in or about 1805 became a preacher. His wife died, and he married again (1813), a widow called Clarke, of Tan-y-clawdd farm, Rhosllannerch-rugog; he gave up his craft and went to live on that farm - he is generally known as ' Robert Roberts of Rhos.' According to Roger Edwards his preaching was of a philosophical cast, and his views brought him, as they brought John Jones of Tal-y-sarn, John Hughes, (1796 - 1860), and Morris Roberts, into great disfavour with the reactionaries among the Flintshire Methodists c. 1828-41; nor did his own sharp tongue lessen this disfavour. He narrowly escaped excommunication - even so, his ordination was deferred till 1832, when he was 58 and had been a preacher for more than twenty-five years. He wrote many hymns; these, with some other verse of his, were printed in Y Traethodydd, and some of them will be found in Emynau y Cysegr. He died suddenly, 14 August 1849, aged 75.
Author
- Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)
- Methodistiaeth Cymru (1851–6), iii, 108-9
- Edward Jones, Y gymdeithasfa yn cynnwys gweithrediadau cymdeithasfa chwarterol y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd yn ngogledd Cymru, a'r gymanfa gyffredinol ynghyda'r ordeiniadau gweinidogaethol, a'r arholiadau cymdeithasfaol, yn y gogledd a'r deheudir, hyd y flwyddyn 1890 (Caernarfon 1891), 477
- Owen Thomas, Cofiant y Parchedig John Jones, Talsarn: mewn cysylltiad a hanes duwinyddiaeth a phregethu Cymru (Wrexham 1874), 571-604
- M. Davies, Emynwyr Gwynedd traethawd buddugol yn Eisteddfod y Bala, Llungwyn, 1904 (Bala 1905)
Sources
- Wikidata: Q20804759
Additional Links
Published date: 1959
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