Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RICHARDS, WILLIAM LESLIE (1916 - 1989), Scholar, teacher, poet and author Born at Cwm, Capel Isaac, near Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, the second son of William Richards and his wife Anne (née Davies). William and Anne had four children, David Whitson (1915-1983), William Leslie, Eleanor Heddwen (1919-1966), and Benjamin Hugh (1924-). The parents were small-holders. He was educated at Capel Isaac primary school, Llandeilo Grammar School, and the University College of
RICHARDSON, EVAN (1759 - 1824), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster Born in 1759 at Bryngwyn-bach, Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn, Cardiganshire, son of a mason named Rhisiart Morys Huw - Richardson himself is often styled 'Richards', not only in popular parlance but in Thomas Charles's letters and in contemporary Calvinistic Methodist records. Lewis Edwards on one occasion claimed to be a 'nephew' (qu. cousin-german) of Richardson 's. He was destined for holy orders
ROBERT (fl. 1099-1147), earl of Gloucester brave soldier, as a wise statesman, and as a patron of letters. Geoffrey of Monmouth dedicated one version of his Historia to him. Robert Fitzhamon had already built Cardiff castle, and the town is referred to as a 'borough' in his time, but it was Robert of Gloucester and his son William (below) who granted Cardiff its charter in the oldest form known to us (Mathews, Cardiff Records, i, 10-11). He
ROBERTS family Mynydd-y-gof, WILLIAM ROBERTS (1830 - 1899), physician Medicine The eighth of the sons. He went to Mill Hill school and University College, London, graduating in 1851 (M.D., 1854), and afterwards studied in Paris and Berlin; he was elected F.R.S. in 1877 [and knighted in 1885 ]. He settled at Manchester in 1854, was chief physician of the Royal Infirmary there from 1855 till 1883, and was from 1863 till [1873
ROBERTS, ARTHUR BRYN (1897 - 1964), trade unionist Born 7 April 1897, the son of William and Mary Roberts, Abertillery, Monmouthshire. He went to work as a collier at thirteen years of age. He won a scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford, and in 1919 to the Central Labour College, London. He was appointed a checkweigher for Rhymney colliers in 1921 and five years later was appointed the representative of the colliers in the Rhymney Valley. He was
ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor Lloyd George, and his brother William George. But he decided, after a few years, to accept a post with Ward, Colbourne and Coulman (a firm which also had strong Liberal connections) in Newport, Gwent. There, he had the opportunity to develop expertise in the fields of commercial and industrial law. At Easter 1897, Lloyd George offered him a partnership in a new legal practice in London, a remarkable
ROBERTS, DAVID (Dewi Havhesp; 1831 - 1884), poet Born in May 1831 at Penrhos, but the family removed in a few weeks to Pen'singrug, Llanfor, Meironnydd - the stream after which he took his bardic name flows through Llanfor hamlet. He was the eldest of the eleven children of Robert and Margaret Roberts; the mother was grand-daughter of the hymnist William Edwards (1773 - 1853), and was thus related to the poet Robert William(s) (1744 - 1815) of
ROBERTS, EDWARD (1886 - 1975), minister (Bapt.) and college principal Edward Roberts was born in Llanelli on 20 March 1886, the son of David and Jane Roberts (née Davies). He was one of nine children with four brothers (John, Thomas, William and Henry) and four sisters (Ann, Mary, Elizabeth-Jane and Gertrude). His parents were members of the Baptist church that met in Seion, Llanelli. The minister there was the renowned preacher, E.T. Jones, and it was he who
ROBERTS, EDWARD STANTON (1878 - 1938), schoolteacher and scholar then became assistant headmaster at Glanadda school, Bangor, in 1907. In October of the same year he enrolled as a student to U.C.W., Aberystwyth, where he won a number of prizes and was awarded an honours degree in Welsh in 1911. As a student he lodged in the same house as T.H. Parry-Williams. In 1917 he gained an M.A. degree for his work on William Salesbury's 'Herbal'. From 1912 to 1915 he worked
ROBERTS, ELLIS (Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895) prepared for ordination. He was ordained deacon (at S. Asaph) in 1862 and became curate at Rhosymedre, Denbighshire; he was priested in 1863. He became rector of Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr in 1866 and left that living in 1872 for the neighbouring vicariate of Llangwm, Denbighshire, where he died 23 April 1895. Elis Wyn became well known as a poet and a literary adjudicator; he also edited Yr Haul from 1885
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. who married William Newell and became the grandmother of Richard Newell. Of the seven children of Evan Roberts's first marriage, John (1767 - 1834) is separately noticed; Elizabeth (Lewis) had two sons, of whom the elder became a justice of the peace at Ebensburg, Pa., and the younger a minister in Indiana; and Mary (Williams) was the mother of William Williams (Gwilym Cyfeiliog, 1801 - 1876) and of

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