Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, JOHN (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and historian Born 16 October 1879 at Porthmadog, Caernarfonshire, son of John J. Roberts ('Iolo Caernarfon') and Ann, his wife. He was educated at Porthmadog board school, Bala grammar school and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated in classics, and subsequently in theology. (The University of Wales conferred on him an honorary D.D. degree towards the end of his life.) He was ordained in 1905, and served
ROBERTS, JOHN (1823 - 1893), billiards player landlord of the Griffin hotel. In 1849 he challenged Edwin Kentfield for the championship of England, but when the latter declined the challenge Roberts assumed the title, which he held till 1870, when he was defeated by his own pupil, W. Cook, who was in turn defeated by Roberts's son, John Roberts, junr., in 1885. He was the author of Billiards (ed. by Henry Buck), 1869. He died 27 March 1893 at his
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731 - 1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer
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 (1576 - 1610), Benedictine monk and martyr 1595/6, where he came into close contact with John (Leander) Jones. After leaving Oxford in 1598 he spent a few months studying law at Furnival's Inn and then went on a tour of the Continent. While he was in Paris he became a Roman Catholic and was admitted to S. Alban's Jesuit College, Valladolid, 18 October 1598. After being there a year he decided to join the Benedictine Order, adopted the name of
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet delivered a host of lectures (they too are extant), including the John Williams Brynsiencyn Memorial Lecture on “Preaching” and the Davies Lecture (on “The Devotion of Silence”: he was trying to understand the appeal of Quakerism to one of his sons-in-law). He claimed that he couldn't really lecture because every lecture became a sermon. He never held an office in the Connexion, partly because he didn't
ROBERTS, JOHN (1775 - 1829), cleric and author Born in 1775, son of John Roberts, Plas Harri, Llanefydd, Denbighshire. He went up to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1792, and graduated in 1796; after which he remained for a while at Oxford as press-corrector of the S.P.C.K.'s Welsh Bible and Prayer Book (published in 1799). In 1798 he was appointed curate of Chiselhampton and Stadhampton (Oxfordshire), but longed to return to Wales, and so became
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian lay in theology, not in politics, and it was not long before the country came to know of the strength of his convictions. In those days, Wales was seething with doctrinal disputes, the fiercest of which was probably that between Calvinism and Arminianism. As a disciple of Dr. Edward Williams, John Roberts steered a middle course and entered the fray as an exponent of what was called the ' New System
ROBERTS, JOHN (Minimus; 1808 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author cemetery, Liverpool. A daughter survived him. Minimus wrote much for the C.M. periodicals, e.g. Y Traethodydd and Y Drysorfa - he edited the latter in 1846, and afterwards, jointly with Roger Edwards, till 1852. With Richard Williams (1802 - 1842) he edited Y Pregethwr, 1835-8. He collaborated with John Jones (1790 - 1855) in a biography of John Elias, and wrote two other biographies; he also wrote hymns
ROBERTS, JOHN (J.R.; 1804 - 1884), Independent minister and author Born in the Old Chapel chapel-house, Llanbryn-mair, 5 November 1804, second son of John Roberts (1767 - 1834). In 1806 the family went to live at Diosg farm close by, and he spent some time working on the land. He was nearly 25 years of age before he started to preach. In March 1831 he was admitted to the Academy at Newtown, which at that time was in charge of Edward Davies (1796 - 1857), a Tory
ROBERTS, JOHN (1753 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Blaen-y-garth, Nantlle Vale, brother of the remarkable preacher, Robert Roberts (1762 - 1802) of Clynnog. He worked for some time in Cilgwyn quarry but, after having had a little education, kept a school in various places, being known for many years as 'John Roberts, Lanllyfni.' He began to preach when he was 27 years of age. After marrying Mrs. Lloyd of Cefn Nannau, Llangwm, Denbighshire
ROBERTS, JOHN (1842 - 1908), Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born 16 February 1842 at Gwyngyll, Upper Corris, Meironnydd, son of Richard Roberts, stonemason (member of a family called Ffowc, farmers of Plas Meifod, Henllan, Denbighshire) and his wife Jane, of Egryn, Dyffryn Ardudwy. On the death of his father John went, at the age of 11, to work in the quarry, but he had already secretly resolved to be a missionary : he saved up to buy books, hiding them

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