Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, GORONWY OWEN (Baron Goronwy-Roberts), (1913 - 1981), Labour politician candidate by a margin of more than 10,000 votes, and he continued to represent the division until the election of February 1974, when he was unexpectedly defeated by Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru). He had served as an MP for twenty-nine years continuously, and his defeat vexed him deeply. He was chairman of Hughes a'i Fab, publishers, Wrexham, 1955-59, and a member of the Courts of the National Library, the
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH (1735 - 1808), physician at Dolgelley, antiquary, and collector of manuscripts Christened 6 September 1735 in the church of Llanfihangel y Pennant, Caernarfonshire, son of Dr. Robert Roberts (1707 - 1769), Isallt, Dolbenmaen; for the family pedigree, see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 359 - it was a branch of the Cesail Gyfarch family, and produced an exceptionally large number (? thirty) of medical men. He practised at Dolgelley, living for some years in what was later known
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH (Gwrtheyrn; 1846 - 1915), littérateur
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1912 - 1969), priest and poet
ROBERTS, GWEN REES (1916 - 2002), missionary and teacher Gwen Rees Roberts was born on 2 March 1916 in Morfa Nefyn, Llŷn, the daughter of Hugh Griffith Roberts (died c.1940) and his wife Gwen Rees Roberts. Her mother died aged 31 within a few days of her birth, and approximately three years later, her father remarried a widow whose daughter, Emily, was eight years older than Gwen. The family was further expanded by the birth of a son, Hugh Wilson
ROBERTS, GWYNETH PARUL (1910 - 2007), doctor and missionary Gwyneth Roberts was born on 1 November 1910 in Sylhet, India, the second child of the Reverend John William Roberts (1880-1969), a member of a Liverpool Welsh family and Ethel Griffith Roberts (née Jones, 1879-1972), born in Manchester. Her parents had gone as missionaries to Sylhet in 1907, and were based there for almost forty years. They had three children: the first died in childhood, and a
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 (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 (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822 - 1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician Gwyllt Gelltydd Melindwr'; henceforward he became known as 'Ieuan Gwyllt.' He became a clerk to Messrs. Griffith and Roberts, druggists, Aberystwyth, but after two years started to teach in Skinner Street school. This latter post he relinquished after a few months in order to go to the Borough Road Training College, London, where he stayed nine months. On his return to Aberystwyth (1845) he opened a
ROBERTS, JOHN BRYN (1843 - 1931), lawyer and politician Born 8 January 1843 (and christened John Roberts), son of Daniel and Anne Roberts, Bryn Adda, Bangor, was a member of the widespread Roberts family of Castell, Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, for which see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 381. He was educated at Cheltenham, qualified as solicitor in 1868, but was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1889. In 1885 he became Liberal Member of
ROBERTS, JOHN HERBERT (BARON CLWYD of ABERGELE), (1863 - 1955), politician Born at 61 Hope Street, Liverpool, 8 August 1863, the son of John Roberts, Liverpool and Bryngwenallt, Abergele (M.P. for the Flint Borough, 1878-92), and his wife Catherine Tudor, daughter of John Hughes (1796 - 1860) minister (CM), Liverpool. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1884 and M.A. in 1888. He published A world tour after spending a year (1884-85
ROBERTS, JOHN PRICE (1854 - 1905), Wesleyan minister and author to Yr Eurgrawn, and something of a poet - his elegy on Joseph Thomas won esteem. He published (1903) a (Welsh) biography of Hugh Price Hughes, and was one of the authors of the biography of John Evans (1840 - 1897) of Eglwys-bach.

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