Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, EVAN (1923 - 2007), research chemist and industrialist Evan Roberts was born on 18 November 1923 in Penygroes, Caernarfonshire, the son of William Henry Roberts (1899-1974), a baker, and Mary Jones Roberts (née Smith, 1899-1980), a laundress. He secured a scholarship to Penygroes County School in 1934, and in 1940 he won a State Bursary to study at the University College of North Wales in Bangor, where he graduated with a first class honours degree
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. Born at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire, 11 February 1769. His father was EVAN ROBERTS (1729 - 1813, obituary by his son John in Y Dysgedydd, May 1831), whose grandmother had been servant-maid to the old Puritan minister Henry Williams of Ysgafell. George's mother, Evan Roberts's first wife Mary (1734 - 1777, née Green - the Greens were also connected with Ysgafell), had a sister Elizabeth
ROBERTS, Sir GEORGE FOSSETT (1870 - 1954), soldier, politician and administrator . He was awarded the degree of LL.D. honoris causa by the University of Wales in 1947. He was chosen a J.P. for Cardiganshire in 1906, served as High Sheriff in 1911-12, and as the county's Deputy Lieutenant from 1929. He married, 29 September 1896, Mary, the eldest daughter of John Parry, Glan-paith, Cardiganshire. She died 26 May 1947. They had two daughters. They lived at Glan-paith, Rhydyfelin
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator and, in great measure, this accounted for his success as a teacher and administrator. He understood the motives of his fellow man better than most and detested over-respectability and affectation. Full of humour and a lover of amusing tales and ready witticisms he was fundamentally a likeable, gracious and kindly man. Married twice (1): Mary Davida Alwynne Hughes on 6 September 1933, and after her
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter . The family settled at Cwm-bach, a stone's throw from Bethel, Blaenau, Schoolroom, a branch of Gosen (CM), Llandybïe. He acknowledges in his writings the chapel's influence upon him and his indebtedness to its ministers, the Reverends W. Nantlais Williams, Philip Evans and Lemuel Lewis. His father died when he was only nine and in 1917, aged thirteen, he started work at Pencae'reithin colliery. The
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet Groes ' whilst his ' Awdl Goffa i R. Williams Parry ' was highly commended in the awdl competition at the national eisteddfod, Llanelli, 1962. Later, he was the adjudicator in the pryddest competition on more than one occasion. He was a member of the Gorsedd of Bards. His anthology of poems ' Y Siaced Fraith ' was staged at the national eisteddfod at Llangefni, 1957. In 1963 he was the chairman of the
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist Gwilym O. Roberts (in error, a full middle name was not registered on his birth certificate though his university records have Owen), was born 22 July 1909 in Cerniog, Pistyll, son to William Owen Roberts, a farmer and well known lay preacher, and his wife Mary Elisabeth Roberts, a seamstress. He received his education at Pwllheli County School and then went on to Aberystwyth University in 1929
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, HUW (fl. c. 1555-1619), poet, author, and cleric families, including those of Bodorgan, Henblas, Mellteyrn, Mysoglen, Penhesgyn, Penrhyn, and Plas Iolyn. He composed a cywydd of welcome to Henry Rowland, bishop of Bangor, on the return of the latter from London in 1610, one on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a poem in the form of a dialogue between a cleric and his lover, a number of various englynion which include one to the Virgin Mary, and ymryson
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Born 1 May 1899 in Penrhyndeudraeth, Meirionethshire, the son of John Roberts, a miner and Mary Jones, daughter of a blacksmith from Harlech. He was brought up by his grandparents in Penrhyndeudraeth and received his education in the local schools. When he left in 1913 his grandmother Sarah Jones arranged for him to travel to his parents' home in Abertridwr, where he found work at the Windsor
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet he was seven), and afterwards took a clerical course at "Owens' College" in Holyhead. He worked for a short time with an insurance company in Wrexham, but from early youth his ambition was to become a preacher. In 1928 he entered the Connexion's preparatory school in North Wales, Ysgol Clynnog, which in 1929 was transferred to Rhyl. He notes that it was the school's principal, R. Dewi Williams, who
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian Born 25 February 1767 at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire. His parents were Evan and Mary Roberts (see under George Roberts), members of the Independent congregation at Llanbryn-mair who attended a branch chapel at Aberhafesp. When he was 18 years of age he went to live with his elder sister at Llanbryn-mair, where he became a member of the church October 1786. In January 1790 he began to

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