Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, HOWELL (Hywel Tudur; 1840 - 1922), poet, preacher and inventor
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731 - 1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer Born 1731 at Llanaelhaearn, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert Lewis, farmer, for whom he acted as shepherd in his younger days. Being converted by Howel Harris on the occasion of a visit by the latter to the neighbourhood, he began to exhort with the Calvinistic Methodists. He settled at Holyhead about 1760, when he obtained a licence from the bishop of Bangor to open a school. He was summoned
ROBERTS, JOHN (Ieuan Gwyllt; 1822 - 1877), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and musician Born 27 December 1822 at Tanrhiwfelen, a house just outside Aberystwyth, the son of Evan and Elizabeth Roberts, who moved in 1823 to Ty'n-y-ffordd, Pen-llwyn, and, in 1829, to Pistyll-gwyn, Melindwr. The father was a precentor, the mother was also a good vocalist. He attended Lewis Edwards's school at Pen-llwyn for some years. When quite young he composed a poem to which he signed his name 'Ieuan
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian (London) agreed that he should be trained at their Academy free of charge, and he was duly admitted. In 1792 the Academy, now in charge of Jenkin Lewis, was moved to Wrexham where Roberts spent three years. Before finishing his course he was invited to assist Richard Tibbott at Llanbryn-mair; he began his work there January 1795 and was ordained 25 August 1796. On Tibbott's death he was elected in March
ROBERTS, LEWIS (1596 - 1640), merchant and writer on economics ., 74) was Margaret, daughter of ' Old ' Richard Johnson - the Johnsons and the Thicknesses (connected by marriage) were the commercial magnates of Beaumaris, and we note the intromission of Welshmen from the countryside into the privileged Englishry of the borough. Robert ab Ifan's second wife was a Welshwoman; a son of this marriage, LEWIS ROBERTS, married a daughter of ' Young ' Richard Johnson
ROBERTS, LEWIS (Eos Twrog; 1756 - 1844), musician and weaver
ROBERTS, LEWIS JONES (1866 - 1931), inspector of schools, and musician Born 29 May 1866 at Aberaeron, Cardiganshire, the son of Lewis Roberts and his wife, Margaret (Jones). He was educated at S. David's College, Lampeter (B.A.), and Exeter College, Oxford (M.A.); whilst he was at Oxford he was a member of ' Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym.' He married, 1888, Mary Noel Griffiths, daughter of capt. Griffiths, Old Bank, Aberaeron; there were six sons and three daughters
ROBERTS, MORRIS (1799 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and later Independent minister Born at Llechwedd-ystrad, Llanuwchllyn, in May 1799. He attended for a time one of Dr. Daniel Williams's schools, which was kept in the ' Old Chapel,' but the teacher at that time was highly incompetent; however, he was given an excellent grounding in the Bible by George Lewis. The family was so poor that he had to start earning a living when he was 10 years of age, and worked on a number of
ROBERTS, PETER (fl. 1578-1646), attorney and chronicler Born 2 February 1577/1578, son of Robert ap Hywel ap Rhys, of Bron-yr-wylfa, near S. Asaph, and his wife Agnes - a Griffith of Gwern-eigron; he probably went to S. Asaph cathedral school. By 1599 he was notary public at S. Asaph, and in 1624 (30 June) he was appointed proctor in the bishop's court. In 1606 he married Jane, one of the daughters of David ap Lewis ap Gronw, of Meiriadog; and he
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1800 - 1878), schoolmaster and Calvinistic Methodist minister at all times on any subject, a fine scholar, but more a thinker than a reader. Peter Davies, Y Glyn, and David Jones, Dolau Bach, two Llangeitho elders, urged him to preach. He was a mature preacher when he was ordained at the Cardigan Association, 1847, but he is said to have increased in sweetness and in respect and acceptability until the end. Dr. Lewis Edwards classed him as a preacher worth
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1834 - 1885), cleric and scholar Born 12 November 1834, son of Owen Roberts and Mary his wife, of Hafod Bach, Llanddewi, Llangernyw, Denbighshire. He went to Bala to Lewis Edwards for two years, 1847-9, and then for two years more was a private tutor in Anglesey before being admitted to the training college at Caernarvon. He obtained his certificate there, and taught at Castle Caereinion and Llanllechid (1853), Amlwch, and
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1777 - 1836), almanack-maker and printer Born in 1777, son of John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) whom he succeeded as the publisher and compiler of the popular Holyhead almanacks known as Cyfaill Glandeg, Cyfaill Taeredd, etc., for the years 1805 to 1837. These almanacks were printed by John Jones of Trefriw under a fictitious Dublin imprint in order to avoid Government tax. He also published Eurgrawn Môn, neu y Drysorfa Hanesyddol, 1825

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