Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, ROBERT (1800 - 1878), schoolmaster and Calvinistic Methodist minister , where he improved his command of English. He became a member of the Calvinistic Methodist church in Jewin Crescent, London. When he was about 40 he was called to succeed the Rev. John Jones in the mastership of a grammar school at Llangeitho. He had acquired some experience as a public speaker, particularly on temperance, and as a Sunday school catechist. He was considered to be an excellent speaker
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVID (1820 - 1893), Baptist minister Born 3 November 1820 in a house near the old Sardis chapel, Dinorwic, Caernarfonshire. He and John Jones (1821 - 1879; see Spinther, iv, 327-9) were cousins. He received very little education as a child nor was he given any college training after he had started to preach. He was baptised at the age of 12 and began to preach in 1839. He spent a short time as a missionary for the Caernarvonshire
ROBERTS, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1866 - 1930), Baptist minister, and writer - the followers of John Richard Jones. Baptized c. 1880, and elected deacon when not quite 17, R. G. Roberts soon felt chafed by the rigidity of the little connexion, and went over to the older Baptist denomination. His schooling (at Dyffryn, and at Towyn, Meironnydd) was interrupted; but in 1886 he went to the Baptist College at Llangollen, and thence to the University College at Bangor, where he
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer had been secured. He still strove against trade unionism and state aid in education, but his influence had passed its heyday. His arguments against voting by ballot, on the grounds that it savoured of cowardice, were not popular. His closing years were clouded by a series of acrimonious disputes, and the denominational quarrel over Michael D. Jones. But in 1883 he received a further demonstration of
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician Wyn Roberts was born on 10 July 1930 in Llansadwrn, Anglesey, the son of the Reverend Evan Roberts and his wife Margaret (née Jones). His father was a Methodist minister at Capel Penucheldref and writer of a weekly column in Y Goleuad. His mother was a teacher at the local school, the schoolhouse also being the Roberts family residence. He attended Beaumaris County School until he won a
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1835 - 1899), Calvinistic Methodist minister was at Colwyn, where he remained for two and a half years. In January 1867 he was put in charge of the churches of Jerusalem (Bethesda) and Ty'n-y-maes, and was ordained in June the same year. In 1870 he married Winifred, the daughter of the Rev. Rees Jones of Port Dinorwic; they had one son, Arthur Rhys, solicitor, who died young. He was moderator of the North Wales Assembly in 1893, and secretary
ROBERTS, THOMAS (d. c. 1775), first Baptist convert in Anglesey His first home was Y Myfyrian Uchaf, but he spent the latter part of his life at Trehwfa-fawr near Rhos-tre-hwfa in Cerrig Ceinwen. He was originally a Congregational member and lay preacher at Rhos-y-meirch, but he came under the influence of David Jones, Baptist minister at Wrexham, and in 1763 (1768 according to Frimston), with the approbation of his fellow-members, he went there to be
ROBERTS, THOMAS (Scorpion; 1816 - 1887), Independent minister when he was only 12 years of age. He was, for a time, a blacksmith's apprentice. In 1837 Gwilym Hiraethog (William Rees) became minister of the church at Swan Lane, Denbigh, and discovered that Scorpion had the necessary qualifications for the ministry. That summer Scorpion began to preach. In 1839 he went to the Rev. D. W. Jones of Holywell to be coached before entering college. In December 1841, as
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1765-6 - 1841) Llwyn'rhudol, pamphleteer (London, 1827), and a phrase book, The Welsh Interpreter (London, 1831, second edition, 1838). He also published (n.d.) Y Byd a Ddaw, a re-issue of a translation by W. E. Jones (Gwilym Cawrdaf) of a work by Isaac Watts, which had appeared in 1829, and Y Ffordd i Gaffael Cyfoeth neu Rhisiart Druan (London, 1839), which is based on Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard. It is unlikely that he was the Thomas
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1760 - 1811), printer later he printed the first number of another periodical - Trysorfa Gwybodaeth, neu Eurgrawn Cymraeg; of this two numbers appeared. Ifano Jones, Hist. of Printing and Printers in Wales, quotes the titles of some other works printed by Thomas Roberts up to 1811 and, after his death, by his widow, M. Roberts, who died 20 July, 1814; it was she, e.g. who printed Arwyrain Amaethyddiaeth, the work of David
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1735 - 1804), member of the 'Trevecka Family' - 1811), printer. He, too, was connected with Trevecka. He does not seem to be included in the lists of the 'Family' by M. H. Jones, unless he is the 'boy' named under ' 1772 '; but it is certain that he learned his trade in the Trevecka Press. Said to have been born either at Llan-rhos, Caernarfonshire, or at Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire he left Trevecka for Caernarvon in 1796, and was the first printer
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (1809 - 1887), Calvinistic Methodist minister, editor, and author Born 25 September 1809 at Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey. He was educated under John Richards, who held the living of Llannerch-y-medd, and at a school kept at Holyhead by William Griffith (1801 - 1881), Congregational minister. He began to preach in 1829 at Hyfrydle chapel, Holyhead. He then went to Dublin for a further course of education; there he gathered together some of the Welsh -speaking

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