Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, IOAN (1941 - 2019), journalist, producer and author Ioan Roberts was born on 22 November 1941 in the village of Rhoshirwaun on the Llŷn peninsula, the son of Ellis Roberts (1908-1980) and his wife Esther (1911-1988). He had one sister, Catherine (later Katie Prichard). He was educated at Llidiardau Primary School and Botwnnog Grammar School, and went on to Manchester University where he studied Civil Engineering for two years, before leaving to
ROBERTS, ISAAC (1829 - 1904), astronomer Born 27 January 1829, son of a small- farmer named William Roberts, Groes-bach, Groes, near Denbigh. In 1844 he was apprenticed with a building firm at Liverpool, and later became himself a very prosperous builder; he retired from business in 1888. His real interests, however, were in science - at first in geology but after 1878 in astronomy. He moved (1882) from Rock Ferry to Maghull, and thence
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 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 . Gouge and S. Hughes, 1677; Hymnau a Chaniadau, 1764; Rhyfyddeg neu Arithmetic, 1768, the first arithmetic book in Welsh; Geirlyfr Ysgrythurol, 1773, the first Welsh scriptural dictionary; Caniadau Preswylwyr y Llwch, 1778; Yr Athrofa Rad, 1788. While the books that Roberts wrote, compiled, and issued were good and valuable, his fame rests rather on his 'Almanacks,' which he commenced to issue about
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 Fra. Juan de Mervinia, and went to Salamanca for a further course of study. In 1602 he was ordained priest, and the following April came to England as a missionary. On four different occasions he was arrested by the authorities, once in November 1605 on suspicion of being involved in the Gunpowder Plot, but on each occasion he was, after a short period of imprisonment, sentenced to exile. Roberts
ROBERTS, JOHN (1910 - 1984), preacher, hymnist, poet Born 2 June 1910 in Llanfachraeth, Anglesey, only son of William Roberts, farm-worker, and his wife Elizabeth, who soon moved to Glan-yr-afon in Llanfwrog. William Roberts was brought up as a Congregationalist, and his wife was an Anglican, but for some unknown reason they joined the Calvinistic Methodists, and it was with them that the son was nurtured. He went to Ffrwd Win School (but not until
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 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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