Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, Sir GEORGE FOSSETT (1870 - 1954), soldier, politician and administrator Born 1 November 1870 at Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, the third son of David and H. Maria Roberts. His father was a member of Aberystwyth Town Council for 44 yrs and served as mayor of the borough on three occasions. G.F. Roberts was educated at a private school at Cheltenham. He joined his father's company and was the managing director of the Trefechan brewery from 1890 until his retirement in
ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator Born 31 August 1904 at Bangor, Caernarfonshire, son of William and Ann Roberts, and educated at Friars School from 1915 to 1922 when he won a scholarship to the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He studied history under John Edward Lloyd and Arthur Herbert Dodd and graduated with first-class honours in 1925. He undertook research into the parliamentary history of the north Wales boroughs
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter local poets. He also joined an Economics class at Capel Hendre and his teacher, Tom Hughes Griffiths, encouraged him to apply for a W.E.A. Entrance Scholarship, worth £60, to Fircroft College, Bournville, Birmingham, an application which was successful. About the same time, Gosen was urging him to offer himself as a candidate for the ministry. Among the poets attending the Welsh class was David Rees
ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician February 1974, he was at once created by Harold Wilson Baron Goronwy-Roberts of Caernarfon and Ogwen in the county of Caernarfon (life peerage), and assumed the surname of Goronwy-Roberts in lieu of Roberts. He was also re-appointed to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office by Harold Wilson in March 1974, serving until December 1975 under George Brown. He was then Minister of State at the Foreign Office
ROBERTS, GWEN REES (1916 - 2002), missionary and teacher a convoy of ships on what was a memorable journey. Despite the dangers of a wartime voyage, the Welsh among the missionaries kept up their spirits by walking the decks at night singing Welsh hymns. Gwen made lifelong friends, including Marian Prichard, who traveled to work as a senior nurse at the Shillong hospital in the Khasi Hills, and Revd Meirion Lloyd who accompanied Gwen on the journey
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist to study Philosophy and Theology. After graduating BA at Aberystwyth, he followed BD courses at the United Theological College and trained as a Calvinistic Methodist minister at Bala College where he came under the influence of Professor David Phillips, an early admirer of Freudian ideas who made practical use of psychoanalysis on Roberts amongst others (See his article on Phillips 'Yr Athro
ROBERTS, HUGH GORDON (1885 - 1961), surgeon and missionary One of the sons of David Roberts of Dolenog, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, and his wife Jane Sarah, daughter of Thomas Price Jones of Liverpool. He was born 16 July 1885 in Liverpool and was reared there. He was a great-grandson of David Roberts (1788 - 1869), a doctor in Bodedern, Anglesey, and Sir William Roberts, F.R.S. (1830 - 1899), who was a prominent doctor in Manchester and London, was his
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Lleyn; 1749 - 1817), poet, schoolmaster, and religious pioneer Born at Chwilog Bach, Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire. He showed literary talent when he was quite young and published a poem - 'Barn Duw' - before he left his native parish. It would appear that he was a bardic pupil of David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri); there is an awdl by him in Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion, 1801. About the year 1802 he published Marwnad … Robert Roberts, Clynnog, and
ROBERTS, JOHN (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and historian as minister at Aberdovey (1903-06), David St., Liverpool (1906-13), and Pembroke Tce., Cardiff (1913-38). He was called to serve as secretary of the Central Fund of the South Wales Association in 1938; ten years later the funds of North and South Wales were combined and he became the first secretary of the united Fund of the Presbyterian Church of Wales. In 1903 he married Annie Jones Hughes
ROBERTS, JOHN (1576 - 1610), Benedictine monk and martyr Born at Trawsfynydd in 1576. It is now believed, on the authority of Peniarth MS 287, that his father was Robert, one of the sons of Ellis ap William ap Gruffydd of Rhiwgoch, and that he was, therefore, a cousin of Robert Lloyd of Rhiwgoch, Member of Parliament for Merionethshire, 1586-7. He was brought up and educated as a Protestant and was admitted to S. John's College, Oxford, 26 February
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
ROBERTS, JOHN (Minimus; 1808 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Second son of Richard Roberts, a ship's chandler, of Liverpool. He became elder (1827?) of Bedford Street C.M. church, began to preach in 1830, and was ordained in 1857 at the Dolgellau Association. He married, in 1849, Elizabeth Milnes, of Oswestry (died 1865). His youngest sister, Ann, became the second wife of the Rev. David Charles (1803 - 1880). While continuing in the employ of sail

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