Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS family Mynydd-y-gof, ), daughter of Thomas Foulkes of Machynlleth, and niece of Simon Lloyd of Bala. Fortified by this dynastic connection with Methodism, he became, long before his death, the chief Calvinistic Methodist elder in Anglesey; a serious man, frugal though not miserly, somewhat autocratic - in a way an incarnation of the rather dour older Methodism of the island. He died 12 January 1869, ' in his 81st year ' says
ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor Arthur Rhys Roberts was born on 27 April 1872 at 20 Ogwen Terrace, Bethesda, the only child of the Rev. Thomas Roberts, minister of Jerusalem chapel (Calvinistic Methodists), and his wife Winifred, herself the child of a Methodist minister, the Rev. Rees Jones (Brynmenai, y Felinheli). He was sent, for a secondary education, to the Salop School, Oswestry, a non-denominational boarding school
ROBERTS, BLEDDYN JONES (1906 - 1977), Old Testament scholar Born April 21, 1906, the eldest son of Thomas and Sophia Jones Roberts, Ty Brith farm, Penycae, near Wrexham. He attended local schools, the Penycae primary and the Ruabon secondary. He then enrolled at the University College of North Wales Bangor, to train for the ministry of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church. He graduated B.A. with first class honours in Hebrew, B.D. with double
ROBERTS, CARADOG (1878 - 1935), musician composed (or arranged) several hymn-tunes, most of which, e.g. 'Rachie' and 'In Memoriam' (in memory of Harry Evans), are included in Welsh hymnaries. He died 3 March 1935, and was buried in Rhosllanerchrugog cemetery.
ROBERTS, DAFYDD (1892 - 1965), chairman of Capel Celyn Defence Committee disestablished. When the threat came to drown the valley, he was elected chairman of the Capel Celyn Defence Committee and remained in that position until the final fateful hour arrived. He accompanied Gwynfor Evans, Elizabeth May Watkin Jones and Dr. Tudur Jones to London and Liverpool to try to save the valley. He made every effort to prevent Liverpool Corporation destroying his heritage. He had been very
ROBERTS, DAVID (Dewi Ogwen; 1818 - 1897), Independent minister the local newspaper. At the age of 15 he was admitted to membership of the church at Lônpopty (now the Tabernacle) but two or three years later joined the Independents at Ebenezer. He was apparently induced to take this step because, after reading Samuel Bowen's book on the Atonement, he was uncertain about some points of doctrine; it is also probable that Arthur Jones's personal influence had
ROBERTS, EDWARD (fl. end of 18th century), editor of Tynewydd, Cefnddwysarn, near Bala, Meironnydd. In 1794 he edited a composite volume called Casgliad Defnyddiol o waith Amryw Awdwyr, consisting mainly of nine letters composed by Elis Roberts ('Elis y Cowper') as religious exhortations to his fellow countrymen. The volume also contained instructions on reading and writing Welsh by Thomas Jones, an account of the visions of one Richard Brightly
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 Born 11 March. 1878, in 'Edeyrnion', Cynwyd, near Corwen, Merionethshire, son of Robert and Martha Roberts. His father, a shoemaker, ensured the recording of local events and traditions, according to Hugh Evans (1854 - 1934) in Cwm Eithin, who called him cofiadur pennaf yr ardaloedd (chief recorder of the areas). Stanton Roberts was educated at Cynwyd Board School where he became a pupil-teacher
ROBERTS, EDWYN CYNRIG (1837 - 1893), pioneer in Patagonia second son, John, in January 1839, John Kendrick died. Mary re-married eventually with another local farmer, David Roberts, and his surname was added to the names of her sons. Following the births of Thomas (1842) and Peter (1843), the family emigrated in May 1847 to the USA, settling on a farm some ten miles south-west of the town of Oshkosh in the state of Wisconsin, where Josiah (1849), David (1851
ROBERTS, ELLIS (Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895) Iachus … (Caernarfon, 1816), in which he defended his faith as a Baptist. Spinther (Hanes y Bed., iii, 342-3) gives the titles of some of his poems (among them 'Cerdd i Mr. Madog a'i Dref' - see Madocks, W. A.); there is a copy in Corph y Gaingc, 1810 (ed. D. Thomas, Dafydd Ddu Eryri) of 'Emyn ar Ddydd Ympryd gan Robert Morys, Bryn-y-gro, yn agos i Lanllyfni.' John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) in Gen., 1883
ROBERTS, EMMANUEL BERWYN (1869 - 1951), minister (Meth.) , he was appointed assistant to the Reverend John Evans, Eglwys-Bach, Pontypridd, and it was he who insisted on giving him the middle name ' Berwyn ', because he thought that no-one should be called ' Emmanuel '. From that time, he was always known by his new name. When John Evans died, he went to Pont-rhyd-y-groes, and in 1899, he was ordained in the first Conference of the Wesleyans in Machynlleth

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